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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."
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"We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have."
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"Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline."
Abuse
"Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good."
Mind
"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong."
Music
"Human nature is above all things lazy."
Nature
"I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation."
God
"Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do."
People
"Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm."
Harm
"All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order."
Woman
"So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women."
Beauty
"No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man."
Man
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