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Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

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The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous.

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The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.

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I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

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In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.

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Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

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It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing.

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In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

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If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

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Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

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It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

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The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

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And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

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The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

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The wise man doesn't compete; therefore nobody can compete with him.

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A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

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The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

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Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day.

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