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John Florio

"England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses."

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

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

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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."

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"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

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"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

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"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."

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"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

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"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

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"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."

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"England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses."
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