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A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
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A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
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A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
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A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception.
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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
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A man who is much talked about is always very attractive.
The importance of being earnest (1895) act 2 -
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again
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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.
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A man with few friends is only halfdeveloped; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed.
Youth and life (1913) -
A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
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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.
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A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
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A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.
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A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.
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