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Man Quotes
"Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man."
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"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."
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"Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive."
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"Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble."
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"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."
Man,
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"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"
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"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name."
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"I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety."
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"To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another."
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"Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied."
Man,
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"The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters."
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"Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other."
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"A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze."
Man,
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"Don't look now but there's one man too many in this room and I think it's you!"
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"Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men."
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"But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!"
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"The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men."
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"I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?"
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"Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child."
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