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Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him. - William Elle

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him. – William Ellery Channing, “Charge for the Ordination of Rev. Robert C. Waterston”

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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. – Hungarian Proverb

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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. – Aeschylus, Agamemnon

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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease… and throw himself into roils and labors. – Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, 1787

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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. – Sydney Smith

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