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"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top."
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"Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape."
Chance
"One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal."
Alimentary
"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
Communication
"Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love."
Love
"If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage."
Man
"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."
Nature
"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."
Committee
"Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours."
People
"Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise."
Politics
"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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