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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
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"Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades."
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"I teach that all men are mad."
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"The man is either mad, or he is making verses."
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"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."
Age
"They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men."
Man
"I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation."
Career
"Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression."
Creativity
"Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them."
Dream
"The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you."
Confidence
"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination."
Experience
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home."
Home
"It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid."
Courage
"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter."
Writing
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