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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
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"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."
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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
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"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more."
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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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"The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative."
World
"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
Balance
"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."
Faith
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."
Time
"Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts."
Time
"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."
Friendship
"Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor."
Humor
"A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy."
Writing
"Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men."
Man
"The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind."
People
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