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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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"There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own."
Experience

"Few, save the poor, feel for the poor."
Poor

"We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity."
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"Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?"
Flowers

"We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing."
Life

"Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious."
People

"A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee."
Harvest

"No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable."
Man

"I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time."
Time

"An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence."
Light
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