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"This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still."
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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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"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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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."
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"We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have."
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"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin."
Government

"It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth."
People

"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird."
Art

"The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage."
Courage

"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."
Time

"You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty."
Care

"There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it."
Life

"They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience."
Friendship

"For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."
Love

"Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line."
Art
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