Language was not given to man: he seized it.

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Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

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Never forget, your family should always have priority over your work.

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So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial. - Ossian Everett Mills

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What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. - H. L. Mencken

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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

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The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

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Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

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