"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."

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"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."

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"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age."

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"A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it."

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"We are the children of our own deeds."

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"There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime."

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"Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant."

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"It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots."

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"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

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"There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation."

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