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Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of t...more

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

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Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Ani...more

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I followed the other Experiment around, yesterday afternoon, at a distance, to see what it might be for, if I could. But I was not able to make [it] o...more

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.