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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."

"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."

"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."

"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."

"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."

"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."

"That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time."

"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."
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