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  • Theodore Roosevelt A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Phillips Brooks A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • E. B. White 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.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Simone Weil A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • George Gurdjieff A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Barbara Cartland 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.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Randolph Silliman Bourne A man with few friends is only halfdeveloped; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed.
    Youth and life (1913)
    Randolph Silliman Bourne
    American writer and intellectual (1886 - 1918)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • James Baldwin A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Heraclitus A man's character is his guardian divinity.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Thomas Hobbes A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • William Wrigley Jr A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
    William Wrigley Jr
    American entrepreneur and chewing gum manufacturer (1861 - 1932)
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  • James Joyce A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • George Santayana A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Joseph Addison A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Charles Darwin A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Butler A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • William Somerset Maugham A man's height gives him a different outlook on his environment and so changes his character.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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