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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
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"I teach that all men are mad."
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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."
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"It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty."
Man
"It is difficult not to write satire."
Satire
"There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman."
Woman
"For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes."
Woman
"A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years."
Family
"No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap."
Vice
"Rare is the union of beauty and purity."
Beauty
"Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised."
Virtue
"The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face."
Will
"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another."
Nature
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