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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."

"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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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."

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."

"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal."

"Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress."

"The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State."

"In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience."

"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"

"I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves."
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