"Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive."

Catherine Helen Spence, Australian Author

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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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"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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"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 businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"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."

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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."

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"The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods."

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"Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria."