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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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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."

"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."

"I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance."

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

"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it."
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