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"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
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"Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades."
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"I teach that all men are mad."
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"The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men."
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"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
Man
"I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts."
Personal
"I have not been a success, and probably never will be."
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"Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe."
People
"I became a writer in spite of my environments."
Environment
"But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality."
Creativity
"It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments."
Art
"But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer."
Failure
"Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen."
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