"Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad."

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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."

Garrison Keillor, American Writer

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"For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial."

Pericles, Greek Statesman

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"Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken."

Chester A. Arthur, American President

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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

William James, American Philosopher

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"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"We are men of action, lies do not become us."

William Goldman, American Novelist

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"It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend."

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"The mob is the mother of tyrants."

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"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man."

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"Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly."

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"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

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"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others."

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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."

"For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial."

"Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls."

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

"Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."

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"I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough."

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"It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend."

"The mob is the mother of tyrants."

"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man."

"Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly."

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others."