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

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

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

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted."


"All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident."


"Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment."


"They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women."


"It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task."


"No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority."


"The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."
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