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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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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way."
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"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"
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"The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal."
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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable 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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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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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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"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."
Age
"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."
Business
"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
"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
"I became a writer in spite of my environments."
Environment
"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
"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."
Success
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