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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 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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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"
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"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."
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"There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices."
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"There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men."
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"A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties."
Soul

"Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts."
Man

"Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry."
Love

"For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe."
Work

"What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?"
Office

"We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it."
Religion

"It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature."
Nature

"Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered."
Conscience

"If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America."
Love

"There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land."
Life
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