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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
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A book is like a man: clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.
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A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
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A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.
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A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
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A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time.
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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