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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

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a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

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I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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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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Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

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No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

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When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

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Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

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I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

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A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.

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In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.

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"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

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The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

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A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

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it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations.

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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

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The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of man cannot make it a true way. A good man is content with changing man, and that is enough for him.

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Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

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