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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."

"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."

"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."

"That was not what men and women fought for during the war."

"The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets."
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"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh."

"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it."

"Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate."
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