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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development
"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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Personal Development
"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
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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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"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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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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"Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast."
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"Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads."
History
"A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened."
Tragedy
"Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection."
Life
"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."
Death
"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light."
Truth
"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."
Thought
"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
Old
"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
"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
Wisdom
"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it."
Man
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