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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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Personal Development
"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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Personal Development
"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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Personal Development
"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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Personal Development
"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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Personal Development
"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
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Personal Development
"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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"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
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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."
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"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears."
Fear
"Man, an animal that makes bargains."
Man
"People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way."
Empathy
"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
"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
News
"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."
Ambition
"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
Taste
"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."
Mind
"When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory."
Life
"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
Self-Awareness
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