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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well."

"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."

"Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember."

"When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from."
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