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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors. ↗

— Jack Cade

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He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror. ↗

— Eric Cantona

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But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them. ↗

— Donald Cargill

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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