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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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"To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style."
Man
"There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise."
Learning
"He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him."
Man
"Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty."
Experience
"The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write."
Reading
"In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry."
Time
"Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world."
World
"By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering."
Experience
"In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning."
Love
"Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning."
Love
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