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"The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step."
Care
"The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested."
Man
"Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?"
Observation
"Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week."
People
"Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart."
Wisdom
"The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all."
Books
"How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?"
Luck
"There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things."
Will
"He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence."
Silence
"Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself."
Heart
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