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"Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"
"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
"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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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
"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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"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."
"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."
"No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people."
"Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men."
"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth."
"In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents."
"A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so."
"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."
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