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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."

"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
Man,

"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."

"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows."
Mind,

"Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion."

"Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles."
Land,

"From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers."
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