"It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman."

Man, Promise, Woman

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"It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman."

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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"No man may make another free."

Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist

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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"

Peter Jennings, Canadian Journalist

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"In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have."

Kate Millett, American Activist

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"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door."

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"Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works."

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"I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest."

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"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss."

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"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope."

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"If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself."

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"It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job."

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"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."

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"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit."

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"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."

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