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"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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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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"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme."
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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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"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin."
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"It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth."
People

"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird."
Art

"The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage."
Courage

"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."
Time

"You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty."
Care

"There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it."
Life

"They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience."
Friendship

"For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."
Love

"A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."
Truth
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