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"When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
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"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."
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"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm."
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"It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies."
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"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one."
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"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms."
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"Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others."
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"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
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"When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck."
Man
"What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed."
Guidance
"The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war."
Science
"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."
Machine
"I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within."
Light
"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."
Mathematics
"Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird."
Will
"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."
England
"The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington."
Family
"Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment."
Cloud
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