"Few men have been admired of their familiars."

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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."

Amelia Barr, American Novelist

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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."

Damon Runyon, American Journalist

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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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."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"No man may make another free."

Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."

Algernon Sydney, English Politician

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"If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves."

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"I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it."

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"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength."

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"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."

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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

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"Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self."

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"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."

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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."

"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

"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."

"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."

"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."

"No man may make another free."

"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."

"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."

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"If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves."

"I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it."

"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength."

"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."

"Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness."

"Few men have been admired of their familiars."

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"Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self."

"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."