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A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

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For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

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When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

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When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive; that they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up.

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History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

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I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

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Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

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No man can be merry unless he is serious.

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Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

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I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.

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America is a country of young men.

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If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

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Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

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But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.

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When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

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No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

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