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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
God
"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
Wisdom
"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."
Thought
"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
Money
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
Man
"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."
Work
"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."
Friendship
"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."
Truth
"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
Life
"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
Man
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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Personal Development
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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Personal Development
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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Personal Development
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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Personal Development
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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Personal Development
"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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Personal Development
"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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Personal Development
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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Personal Development
"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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Personal Development
"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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Personal Development
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