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"A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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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 man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
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"Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades."
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"I teach that all men are mad."
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"A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin."
Man
"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."
Love
"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world."
Government
"People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug."
People
"Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization."
Life
"Genius is the talent of a person who is dead."
Talent
"Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present."
History
"If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion."
Religion
"Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins."
Laughter
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