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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"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."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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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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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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"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
"By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."
Wisdom
"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel."
Comedy
"Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
Man
"The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon."
Love
"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."
Life
"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."
Help
"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."
Art
"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
"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
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