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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
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Faith
Intelligence
Man
Friends are born, not made.
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Friends
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
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Purpose
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
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Men
Harm
World
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
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Intelligence
Beginning
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
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Taste
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
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Morality
Luxury
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
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Society
American
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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Thought
Man
Words
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
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Education
Nature
Knowledge
Beginning
End
Human nature
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
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Nature
Dream
Chaos
Law
Man
Order
Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
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Answers
Problems
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
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Experience
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
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Marriage
Accident
Companionship
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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Absence
Liberty
Responsibility
Restraint