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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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"What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful."
Will

"Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom."
Man

"The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind."
Soul

"Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation."
Age

"Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong."
Travel

"I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong."
Strength

"There are no signposts in the sea."
Sea

"Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel."
Choice

"Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it."
Experience

"Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt."
Fear
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