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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"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."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."
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"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."
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"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
Life

"I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."
Age

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."
Humor

"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."
Life

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

"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."
Truth

"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

"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."
Help

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

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