Man Quotes
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
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A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.
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The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
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I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.
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When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
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And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.
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The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.
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A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
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While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find.
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The man, to me, ... is a legend.
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The little man is still a man.
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A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.
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A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.
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Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
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The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.
