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• The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the dollar and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide -- as, I think, he will.
  Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction....
• Give us the man," shouts the multitude, "who will step forward and take the responsibility.
  He is instantly the idol, the lord, and the king among men....
• I think he's playing the lead violin part on a viola.
• I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them
  and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another....
• He is the best of men who dislikes power. -- Mohammed
• INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
  "All men are ingrates," sneered the cynic. "Nay," The good philanthropist replied...
• It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 322
• Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with.
  Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most....
• only to the extent which -- in chains, in dungeo
  in hidden corners, in the cells of philosophers, in the shops of traders -- some men continued to think, only to that extent was humanity able to survive ....