"A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself."

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"It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her."

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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

"He who hates vice hates men."

"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."

"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."

"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

"I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more."

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"What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?"

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"I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself."

"The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough."

"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience."

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