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“The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.”
“Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.”
“If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.”
“All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.”
“As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.”
“The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.”
“A man often pays dear for a small frugality.”
“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”
“Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.”