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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
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Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.
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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking - he knows!
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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
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A ''modern'' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
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A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".
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A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.
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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
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A clever man commits no minor blunders.
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A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.
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A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.
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A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
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A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
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A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
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