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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?"

"Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod."

"Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war."

"Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner."
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