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It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't charge sixteen dollars for that little tiny jar.
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
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It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.
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It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
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It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.
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Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore.
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Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
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Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
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Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
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