"O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on."

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"The brave love mercy, and delight to save."

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"Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together."

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"But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest."

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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"Genius: the superhuman in man."

"Men exist for the sake of one another."

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."

"I will praise any man that will praise me."

"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."

"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."