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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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"People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm."

"It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire."

"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."

"There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint."

"There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies."

"Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man."

"It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all."
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