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The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.
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After all he is only a man, that is to say capable of little and of much, of all and of nothing; he is neither angel nor brute, but man.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
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Life without industr is guilt, and industry without art is brute lity.
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
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The mere brute pleasure of reading, the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
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We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.
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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?
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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
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