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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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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
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"Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades."
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"I teach that all men are mad."
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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
Love


"To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?"
Man


"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."
Talent


"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
Love


"In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them."
Writing


"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."
Fame


"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good."
Evil


"One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell."
Hell


"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."
Living


"I don't get acting jobs because of my looks."
Acting
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