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Man Quotes
"Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority."
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"You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception."
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"The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short."
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"A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her."
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"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak."
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"Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not."
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"No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once."
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"The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part."
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"Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty."
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"I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation."
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"Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar."
Man,
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"It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men."
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"You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them."
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"Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting."
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"Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man."
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"Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive."
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"If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity."
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"Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people."
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"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man."
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"The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive."
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"Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth."
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"I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world."
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"Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink."
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