Quotes with gentle-man

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  • Mark Twain The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Virginia Woolf The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The man who is denied the opportunity of making decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to make.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Miller The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • B. C. Forbes The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Mark Twain The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bruce Lee The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.
    Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 6
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Henry S. Naskins The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
    Henry S. Naskins
    American stock trader and aphorism writer (1875 - 1957)
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  • Ayn Rand The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Samuel Butler The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Henry Miller The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • E.J. Phelps The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
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  • William Blake The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Aaron Hill The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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