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The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

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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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Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.

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Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

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Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.

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If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

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The householder must always please his wife with money, clothes, love and faith and never do anything to disturb her. That man who has succeeded in getting the love of a chaste wife has succeeded in his religion and has all the virtues.

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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

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Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

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The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

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A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.

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The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

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I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

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If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

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In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

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We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.

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