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"Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess."
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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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"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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"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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"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 vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
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"The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love."
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"The Siren waits thee, singing song for song."
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"I strove with none; for none was worth my strife."
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"Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much."
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"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked."
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"Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!"
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"Delay in justice is injustice."
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"There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it."
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"Consult duty not events."
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"We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."
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