"Man, an animal that makes bargains."

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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."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Let no such man be trusted."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

George Eliot, British Author

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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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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."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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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."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."

George Eliot, British Author

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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."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way."

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"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."

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"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."

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"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."

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"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."

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"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."

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"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."

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"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."

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"Man, an animal that makes bargains."

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"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears."

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