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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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"Let no such man be trusted."
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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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"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
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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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"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast."
Love
"Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste."
Beauty
"Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony."
Literature
"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust."
Society
"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
Poetry
"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Work
"France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic."
Poetry
"Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art."
Art
"To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing."
Man
"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
People
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