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"Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is."
"No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted."
"We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep."
"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them."
"How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper."
"It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand."
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