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"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."


"Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess."


"Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!"


"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven."
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