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"Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict."
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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."
Influence
"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."
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"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."
Nature
"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else."
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"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."
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"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."
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"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."
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"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."
Difference
"A friend in power is a friend lost."
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"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
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