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"Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness."
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"Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days, he says, she will go way too far. Too far for him, is what he means."
"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."
"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."
"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant."
"The impatient man is his own enemy, he slams the door on his own progress."
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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."
"A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house."
"The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments."
"The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck."
"Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction."
"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."
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