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"Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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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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"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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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"That was not what men and women fought for during the war."
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"The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets."
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"A princely mind will undo a private family."
Family
"The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past."
History
"Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way."
Hope
"Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms."
People
"Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."
Man
"They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money."
Money
"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers."
Law
"Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding."
Man
"There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it."
Business
"The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory."
Memory
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