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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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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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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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"All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing."
Privacy
"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
"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
"Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us."
Etiquette
"Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life."
Life
"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
"Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry."
Concern
"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
"Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar."
Originality
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