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"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home."


"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble."
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