"The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep."

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"The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. 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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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country."

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"A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man."

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"The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it."

Time

"Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it."

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"The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win."

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"None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married."

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"When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."

"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men."

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"A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country."

"A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man."

"The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it."

"Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it."

"The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win."

"None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married."

"To be an ideal guest, stay at home."

"Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up."

"If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him."

"When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time."