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"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours."
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"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."
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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
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"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."
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"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."
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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
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"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
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"He who hates vice hates men."
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"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."
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"Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping."
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"Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies."
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"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."
Happiness
"Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind."
Influence
"Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself."
Self-Improvement
"No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent."
Power
"We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure."
Ignorance
"The world is governed by opinion."
Opinion
"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours."
Man
"Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it."
Perfection
"The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought."
Thought
"God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth."
Intelligence
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