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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
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"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction."
Life
"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."
Politics
"Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting."
Man
"Better belly burst than good liquor be lost."
Wisdom
"Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly."
Man
"The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome."
Trust
"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room."
Art
"My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool."
Love
"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday."
Man
"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."
Death
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