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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

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Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.

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Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

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He [Lincoln] had mastered it {the Bible] absolutely...mastered it so that he became almost 'a man of one Book', who knew that Book and who instinctively put into practice what he had been taught therein.

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Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.

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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

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Physical elegance comes from the body. This is no superficial matter but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

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There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.

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God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search our souls for the meaning of the mysteries described in ancient books.

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The great man is always the man of mighty effort.

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Man takes a great deal of pains to heap up riches, and they are but like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.

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Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

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After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

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Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

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We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

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Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest. . . If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me.

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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

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Education should be as broad as man.

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The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.

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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

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