"A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us"
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"We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses."
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"The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following."
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"Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles."
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"No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies."
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"As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man."
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"We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul."
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"War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man."
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"We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company."
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"Fear is cruel and mean."
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"Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery."
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"A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man."
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"Conversation is a game of circles."
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"Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism."
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"The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art."
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"A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire."
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"Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new."
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"Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped."
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"Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money."
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"The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts."
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