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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."
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"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."
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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."
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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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"The grace of God is courtesy."
God
"Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing."
Writing
"Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography."
Autobiography
"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
Friendship
"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie."
Lie
"All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men."
Man
"I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it."
Writing
"I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
Travel
"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."
Poetry
"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."
Death
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