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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
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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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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived."
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"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
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"People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail."
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"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."
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"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."
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"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
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"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
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"A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter."
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"Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think."
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