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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."
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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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"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"
Art
"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."
Habit
"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."
Sacrifice
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."
Bible
"In heaven an angel is nobody in particular."
Heaven
"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing-a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."
Mortality
"I work as my father drank."
Personal
"Some donkeys have amazing luck."
Fortune
"Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children."
Family
"From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way."
Art
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