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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."

"If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do."

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
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"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."

"They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience."

"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?"

"To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot."

"To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence."

"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."

"As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs."

"This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still."
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