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"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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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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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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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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"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme."
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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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"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."
People

"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
Desire

"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."
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"At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference."
Society

"I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this."
Man

"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him."
Happiness

"Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die."
Heart

"Don't forget to love yourself."
Love

"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."
Life

"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."
Truth
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