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For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

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The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.

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Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

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There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

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Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

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...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.

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Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

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Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

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Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

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I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.

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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

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People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

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A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.

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Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.

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No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

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Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.

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Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

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