Quote by Walt Whitman
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes). – Walt Whitman

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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? – Walt Whitman

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In the broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection. – Walt Whitman

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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. – Oscar Wilde

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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. – George Moore

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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. – George Bernard Shaw

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