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Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? ''And here is my good big centipede!'' If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.
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Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.
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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.
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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
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O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.
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O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
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Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life 'Tis most meddled with by other people.
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
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Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
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Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
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Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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Of all the works of man I like best
Those which have been used.
The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
The knives and forks whose wooden handles
Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
Seemed to me the noblest.Source: Poems, 1913-1956 Of all the works of man [Von allen Werken] (c. 193 -
Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.
Source: We moeten allemaal feminist zijn (2014)
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