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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
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A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
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A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
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A man's possessions are just as large as his own soul. If this title-deeds cover more, the surplus acres own him, not he the acres.
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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
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A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.
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A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
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A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
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A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.From Anacreon, vii. Gold; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). -
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
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A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
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A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
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