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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out."
Excellence
"The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post."
Recognition
"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."
Work
"No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind."
Quality
"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."
Life
"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."
People
"Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present."
Presence
"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
Fear
"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"
Act
"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium."
Society
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