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"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords."
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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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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
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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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"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
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"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?"
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"The obscurest epoch is today."
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"He who sows hurry reaps indigestion."
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"Nothing like a little judicious levity."
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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
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"Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life."
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"To be honest, to be kind - to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation - above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself - here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. He has an ambitious soul who would ask more; he has a hopeful spirit who should look in such an enterprise to be successful."
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