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"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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"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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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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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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"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
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"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."
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"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life."
Life
"Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto."
Experience
"Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter."
Glory
"Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."
Glory
"The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life."
Life
"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."
Competition
"War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known."
War
"Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy."
Family
"In the state of nature profit is the measure of right."
Nature
"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame."
Thought
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