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"Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn."
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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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"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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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."
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"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."
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"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it."
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"For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give 'significant form' to the chaos of experience?"
Philosophy


"But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak."
Society


"There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand."
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"Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years."
Time


"The family is the nucleus of civilization."
Family


"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
History


"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."
People


"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom."
Science


"Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory."
Time


"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."
Art
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