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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"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

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

"There are no signposts in the sea."
Sea

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

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

"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

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

"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

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