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A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.
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A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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A man is two people, himself and his cock. A man always takes his friend to the party. Of the two, the friend is the nicer, being more able to show his feelings.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
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A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
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A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
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A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.
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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
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A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
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A man must serve his time to every trade save censure - critics all are ready made.
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A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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