One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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