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[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

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Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.

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That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

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Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin-a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or not man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing.

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An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

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Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw.

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I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

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Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.

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Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

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The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

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Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

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Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

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But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

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Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

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Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.

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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

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A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

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