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"One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away."
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"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar."
Originality
"There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience."
Experience
"Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them."
People
"One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them."
Man
"Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life."
Life
"Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges."
Work
"Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones."
Time
"The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time."
Life
"Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry."
Concern
"Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us."
Etiquette
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