"The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody."
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"A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower"
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"A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time."
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"The life of labor does not make men, but drudges."
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"War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels."
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"A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness."
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"A beautiful woman is a practical poet."
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"We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance."
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"You can take better care of your secret than another can."
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"A forte always makes a foible."
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"Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain."
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"It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy."
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"Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self."
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"Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait."
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"Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches."
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"Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep."
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"Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims."
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"All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man."
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"The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails."
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"Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love."
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