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"We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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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."
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"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."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been."
Beauty


"We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes."
Man


"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."
World


"By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown."
Admiration


"Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using."
Love


"Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art."
Nature


"The stars that have most glory have no rest."
Glory


"Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb."
Grief


"The wise are above books."
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