"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."

Man, May, Old, Oliver Holmes

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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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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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

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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

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

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"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."

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"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

Soul

"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."

Resilience

"Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth."

Truth

"A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad."

Psychology

"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

Humility

"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure."

Wisdom

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

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

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

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

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"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."

"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

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"Love prefers twilight to daylight."

"Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth."

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"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure."