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"The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast."
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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman."
Universe


"Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others."
Happiness


"The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love."
Love


"I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species."
Man


"Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy."
Friendship


"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil."
Money


"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
News


"A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart."
Heart


"There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear."
Power


"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."
Love
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