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"You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty."
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
Old
"Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him."
Thought
"Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."
Idea
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
Direction
"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived."
Life
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."
Equality
"Carve every word before you let it fall."
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"Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government."
Government
"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."
Eye
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
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"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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