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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."
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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."
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"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."
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"I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest."
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"When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg."
Machine
"A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature."
Nature
"I hate artists who are not of their time."
Time
"The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection."
Nature
"Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony."
Nature
"Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman."
Man
"Joy always came after pain."
Joy
"It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes."
Soul
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
Happiness
"I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts."
Love
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