Quotes with gentle-man

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  • R. F. Hallock A man's possessions are just as large as his own soul. If this title-deeds cover more, the surplus acres own him, not he the acres.
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  • Alexander Smith A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Gerald Stanley Lee A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Charlie Chaplin A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Walter Savage Landor A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alexander Graham Bell A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Jose Ferrer A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.
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  • George Bernard Shaw A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Eugene Field A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
    Eugene Field
    American writer (1850 - 1895)
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  • Edgar W. Howe A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Fred A. Allen A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • William Cowper A moral, sensible, and wellbred man, I will not affront me, and no other can.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • George Eliot A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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