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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. - Thomas Carlyl

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. – Thomas Carlyle

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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. – Thomas Carlyle

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Perfection
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Thomas Carlyle
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Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! – Thomas Carlyle

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Health
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. – George Washington

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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. – D.H. Lawrence

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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. – Plato

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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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