"'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel."

William Makepeace Thackeray, English Novelist

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

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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."

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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."

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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."

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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write."

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"A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible."

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"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit."

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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!""

"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."

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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."

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