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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.Charles de Gaulle
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.H. L. Mencken
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.Henry David Thoreau
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.Aldous Huxley
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.Ralph Waldo Emerson
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.Samuel Johnson
No human thing is of serious importance.Plato
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.Samuel Johnson