"The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them."

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"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

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Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."

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"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."

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"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Poor men's reasons are not heard."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."

"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."

"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."

"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."

"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."

"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

"Poor men's reasons are not heard."

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