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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."

"A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat."

"Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people."

"Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us."

"No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man."
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