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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element."
Appearance
"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."
Appearance
"Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent."
Being
"The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it."
Heaven
"It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of."
Evil
"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it."
Family
"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them."
Man
"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel."
Thought
"Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them."
People
"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions."
Family
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