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Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

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But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men have left God not for gods, they say, but for no gods; and this has never happened before. That men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first Reason, and the money, and power, and what they call life, or race, or dialect.The church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, what have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms upturned in an age which advances progressively backwards?

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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

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Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

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The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

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Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

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With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.

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A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.

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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

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Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

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Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

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History is a myth that men agree to believe.

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If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

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Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

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It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.

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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

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Man is at his tallest when he bows.

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Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.

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