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

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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

Margot Asquith, English Author

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"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."

Katherine Anne Porter, American Journalist

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C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?"

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"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

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"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."

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"If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk."

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"Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand."

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"Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives."

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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

"And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?"

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."

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"An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse."

"Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives."

"On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends."

"A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine."

"Shadow owes its birth to light."