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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
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"Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth."
People

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
Life

"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
Man

"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel."
Comedy

"The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon."
Love

"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."
Art

"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."
Comedy

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
Life

"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."
Ambition

"Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations."
Nature
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