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Man Quotes
"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!"
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"It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
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"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good."
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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."
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"Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have."
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"It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies."
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"Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man."
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"Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!"
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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."
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"Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man."
Man,
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"Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are."
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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
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"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?"
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
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"A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.'"
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