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"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."
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"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."
"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"
"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."
"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control."
"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."
"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"
"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
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"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."
"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."
"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
"The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise."
"My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language."
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