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The proper study of mankind is woman.

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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

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Morality is a private and costly luxury.

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I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

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Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: February 16th, 1838

Died: March 27th, 1918

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