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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
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A manager is an assistant to his men.
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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
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A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one
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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roué to retire upon.
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A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
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A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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