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A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.
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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
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A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
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A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
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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 melody is not merely something you can hum.
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A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
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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 modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
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A moral, sensible, and wellbred man, I will not affront me, and no other can.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
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A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.
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