"Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade."

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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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"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."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Man, Men, People, Worth

"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."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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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."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence."

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"America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land."

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"Music tells no truths."

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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

"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."

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

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"Respect is what we owe; love, what we give."

"Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth."

"Art is man's nature; nature is God's art."

"There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence."

"Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell."

"Imagination is the air of mind."

"America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land."

"Music tells no truths."

"Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love."

"Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art."