"Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

George Eliot, British Author

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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

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"We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it."

"Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection."

"A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants."

"Our inventions mirror our secret wishes."

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"I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know."

"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."