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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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Personal Development
"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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Personal Development
"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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Personal Development
"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
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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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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child."
Ability
"The ocean moans over dead men's bones."
Man
"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades."
Civilization
"Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay."
Age
"True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation."
Art
"No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original."
Originality
"The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born."
Man
"A man is known by the company his mind keeps."
Influence
"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings."
Imagination
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age."
Age
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