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"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."

"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."

"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."

"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
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"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

"It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in."

"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair."

"The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error."
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