It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that. How many have tried, because of him? Not only those I have seen; there will be men to come. Those who look in mankind only for their own littleness, and make them believe in that, kill more than he ever will in all his wars.
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We told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things we'd ever seen.
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Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean.
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Jean-Paul Marat
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