"There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn."
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"Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality."
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"Introspection is always retrospection"
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"The less I understand life, the more I live it!"
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"Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger."
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"Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press."
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"People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life."
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"No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act."
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"My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand."
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"Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice."
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"Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless."
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"Habit is the deepest law of human nature"
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"The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also."
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"Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve."
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"Never underestimate the human capacity for delusion."
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"All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature."
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"A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind."
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"Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them."
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"Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."
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"In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception."
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