Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue...in which we are surpassed by the lower animals.
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A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
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A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.
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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
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It is a great piece of folly to sacrifice the inner for the outer man.
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Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.
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