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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"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."
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"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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"A man in the house is worth two in the street."
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"In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men."
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"Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still."
Nation
"Genius is independent of situation."
Genius
"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."
Acting
"It can't be Nature, for it is not sense."
Nature
"Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest."
Man
"Genius is of no country."
Genius
"Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest."
Appearance
"The best things carried to excess are wrong."
Moderation
"Patience is sorrow's salve."
Patience
"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
Envy
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