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"We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates."
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"Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost."

"The world is "sick" with loneliness in spite of multitudes of people living in it."

"Take responsibility for the city."

"Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment."

"When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends : "What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to any who was lucky enough to be unable to read."
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"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."

"The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action."

"Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man."

"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."

"To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!"

"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination."

"Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices."
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