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"If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them."
People
"Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something."
Influence
"The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear."
Will
"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."
Time
"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time."
Happiness
"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."
Travel
"Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb."
Time
"A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug."
Happiness
"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."
Genius
"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."
Genius
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