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"It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy."
Man,
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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"For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
Conversation
"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."
Hate
"If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good."
Power
"A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion."
May
"What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!"
Life
"I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything."
Character
"It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy."
Man
"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
Friendship
"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
Love
"We must take our friends as they are."
Friendship
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