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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Politics are a very unsatisfactory game."
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"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."
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"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."
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"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."
Life

"The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies."
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"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."
Absence

"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence."
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"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
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"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile."
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"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."
Taste
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