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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."
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"We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have."
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"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."
Answers
"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."
Nature
"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."
Trust
"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."
Purpose
"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."
Society
"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."
Difference
"A friend in power is a friend lost."
Friendship
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
Education
"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile."
Man
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
Thought
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