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"Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent."
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"A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions."
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"When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail."
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"All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity."
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"Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel."
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"Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?"
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"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Conceit is God's gift to little men."
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"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
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"I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world."
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"He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius."
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"Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine."
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"Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism."
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"Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent."
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"The dread of criticism is the death of genius."
Death

"The only true source of politeness is consideration."
Courtesy

"Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy."
Law

"No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them."
Nation

"Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes."
Time

"The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian."
Civilization
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