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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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"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
Man, Men, May, Pride
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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
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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."

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
Man, Men, Gratitude, Desire, Nothing
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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

Victor Hugo, French Author
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