Man Quotes
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All there is, is fragments, because a man, even the loneliest of the species, is divided among several persons, animals, worlds. To know a man more than slightly it would be necessary to gather him together from all those quarters, each last scrap of him, and this done after he is safely dead.
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Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
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I am pro-life and I believe that marriage should only be between and man and a woman.
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This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.
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A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if their malice can't persuade the town's-people into a dislike of their performance, they'll cruelly endeavor to taint their characters.
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Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.
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There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.
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I personally can tell you that all my girlfriends - and many women I've spoken to - have this fear of being perceived as desperate or forward when they want to approach a man. It was always, 'He must text you first' - but why?
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I consider myself a very lucky man indeed.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
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It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
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Man is a creature of light and air, and I should therefore recommend little or no clothing when training.
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So long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows that he is often going to need to have his ears slapped back, and who should do this but the clergy?
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Let all the learned say what they can, 'tis ready money makes the man.
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The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of praise to their Creator. In the tops of the trees, the soughing of the wind is like the hushed prayers of the multitude in some vast cathedral. Here the heart of man becomes impressionable.
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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
