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My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

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A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

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The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.

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The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.

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In all superstition wise men follow fools.

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I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

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Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

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In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

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The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

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All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

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It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

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The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.

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Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

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I-man say don't make jah body a graveyard for de dead animals.

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Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.

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