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Men Quotes


"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."


"Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability."


"Men have two ways of righting their wrongs, by force and by the ballot. Both are denied to women, one by nature, the other by man."


"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."


"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."


"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."


"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."


"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."


"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."


"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."


"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."


"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."


"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."
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