"It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men."

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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."

"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."

"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"

"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."

"There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices."

"There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men."

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"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."

"Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect."

"Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author."

"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."

"Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world."

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