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"I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?"
Wife

"Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business."
Business

"Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly."
Being

"Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate."
Debt

"Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close."
Death

"Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one."
Being

"Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures."
Friendship

"I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for."
People

"Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see."
Men

"Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em."
Books
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