"Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive."

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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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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more."

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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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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

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"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."

"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."

"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

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"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation."

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"Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion."

"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money."

"Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing."