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It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues. – Jean de la Bruyere

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If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to ones reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. – Leo Tolstoy

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Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. – Albert Pike

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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers. – Booker T. Washington

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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. – James Russell Lowell

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The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. – Gertrude Jekyll

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