"He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain."

Douglas William Jerrold, English Dramatist

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"He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain."

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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"

bell hooks, American Critic

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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

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"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."

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"Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together."

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"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."

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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."

"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

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"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."

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"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."

"Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life."

"Religion's in the heart, not in the knees."

"Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass."

"The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling."

"In this world truth can wait; she is used to it."

"We love peace, but not peace at any price."