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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."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
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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."
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"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
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"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."
Reputation
"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits."
Crime
"Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love."
Love
"Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good."
Caution
"Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime."
Crime
"War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men."
Man
"Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government."
Government
"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."
Fool
"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."
Army
"Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts."
Fact
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