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• Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer…
• Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a…
• Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
• There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.
• Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.
• Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.
• In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.
• By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
• As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.
• Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
• We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.
• I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men…

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