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"To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another."
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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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"There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been."
Money

"My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you."
God

"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."
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"Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much."
Love

"Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge."
Science

"To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another."
Man

"One man is as good as another until he has written a book."
Man

"You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say."
God

"Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door."
Doubt

"Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard."
Feelings
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