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"Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way."
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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme."
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"The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet."
Money
"It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants."
Greatness
"Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent."
Man
"From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it."
Age
"Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write."
Thought
"Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives."
Happiness
"Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may."
Man
"Please your eye and plague your heart."
Heart
"The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty."
People
"Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling."
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