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"There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write."
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"A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions."
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"When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail."
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"All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity."
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"Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel."
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"Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?"
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"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Conceit is God's gift to little men."
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"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
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"I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world."
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"All great peoples are conservative."
Conservative

"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
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"Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time."
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"I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am."
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"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
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"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity."
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"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."
Ego

"The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall."
Man

"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
Heart
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