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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development
"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!""
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Personal Development
"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."
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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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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."
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"Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift."
Woman
"Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him."
Man
"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."
Admiration
"A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward."
Woman
"Man proposes, woman forecloses."
Man
"The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh."
Life
"When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird."
Man
"That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend."
Friendship
"There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering."
Truth
"The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it."
Religion
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