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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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Personal Development
"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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Personal Development
"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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Personal Development
"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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Personal Development
"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
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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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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders."
Writing
"Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success."
Government
"Honor sinks where commerce long prevails."
Society
"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."
Courage
"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."
Man
"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."
Work
"What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind."
Man
"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."
Death
"Life is a school of probability."
Life
"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."
Mistake
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