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The vices of some men are magnificent

This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.