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Quote by Christopher Morley
Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit;

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare. – Christopher Morley

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Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear. – Christopher Morley

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Nature has placed man under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. – Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789

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Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. – Alphonse Karr

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Order marches with weighty and measured strides; disorder is always in a hurry. – Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815

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Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. – Thomas Fuller

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