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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."
"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
"A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation."
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"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits."
"The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for."
"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."
"She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again."
"Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts."
"Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters."
"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."
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