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The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.
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The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
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The great man has two hearts - one bleeds, the second one endures.
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The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.
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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period.
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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
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The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.
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