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"The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication."
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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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"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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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."
Experience
"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."
Wisdom
"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."
Mind
"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
Age
"America is a young country with an old mentality."
Politics
"Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence."
Life
"Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end."
Spiritual
"Art is a delayed echo."
Art
"I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life, I should not be honest otherwise."
Philosophy
"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."
Hope
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