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

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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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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"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away."

Dennis Miller, American Comedian

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"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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

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

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

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""

"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

"A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away."

"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."

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

"Shadow owes its birth to light."

"There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self."

"I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them."

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

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

"Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee."