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"No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour."
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"No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour."
Man
"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
Books
"People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness."
Death
"Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's."
Creation
"History develops, art stands still."
Art
"The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not."
Philosophy
"I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully."
Behavior
"And Englishmen like posing as gods."
Society
"My father says that there is only one perfect view - the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it."
Philosophy
"Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had kept proportion. She had told a little of her grim secret to her friends, but not too much; she had shut up her heart--almost, but not entirely. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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Personal Development
"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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Personal Development
"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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Personal Development
"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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Personal Development
"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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Personal Development
"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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Personal Development
"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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Personal Development
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