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"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."	Quotations
"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn."	Facts
"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."	Ideas
"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."	God, Truth
"Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one."	Success, Life
"When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?"	Women
"When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?"	Men
"The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done."	God, Character
"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."	Friendship
"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."	Government, Friends
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