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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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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."
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"We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have."
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"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength."
Strength

"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
Wisdom

"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."
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"Ambition is not a vice of little people."
People

"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."
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"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum."
Education

"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."
Truth

"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
Age

"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition."
Man

"The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness."
Soul
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