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E. B. White

"A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus."

E. B. White, American Writer
Man, Nothing, Sense
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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

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"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist
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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist
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"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."

John Steinbeck, American Author
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."

Samuel Butler, British Poet
Man, Men, Training, University, World
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

Voltaire, French Writer
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"I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more."

Jean Paul, German Author
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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

Voltaire, French Writer
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

Voltaire, French Writer
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