"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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"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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"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 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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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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

Self-Awareness

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

Mind

"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."

Reality

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

Ambition

"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."

Education

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

Empathy

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

Wonder

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

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

Fear

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

Taste