"A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him."

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Chester A. Arthur, American President

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William James, American Philosopher

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Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."

"For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial."

"Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls."

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

"Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."

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"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."

"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."

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"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools."

"Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."

"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."