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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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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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"I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more."
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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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"If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman."
Leadership
"The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people."
Change
"It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble."
Quality
"The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need."
Man
"I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books."
Writing
"Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people."
Man
"It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help."
Education
"There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force."
People
"I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it."
World
"Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?"
Man
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