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Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
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Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.
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Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.
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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.
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Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Men of great abilities are generally of a large and vigorous animal nature.
Source: The Statesman (1886) 229 -
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practice a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
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Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Source: Pensees
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