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

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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."

Arthur Capper, American Politician

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"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

Jean Kerr, American Playwright

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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."

Charles Lyell, British Lawyer

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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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"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."

Alan Moore, British Writer

Man, Men, People, Energy

"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them."

Augustus Hare, English Writer

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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"The strong man is strongest when alone."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show."

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"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."

Battle

"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."

Imitation

"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."

Money

"The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth."

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"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

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"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."

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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."

"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."

"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."

"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."

"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them."

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

"The strong man is strongest when alone."

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"By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show."

"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."

"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."

"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."

"Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen."

"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

"The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth."

"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."