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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
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Men were only made into ''men'' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally ''a man'' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
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Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
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Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
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Millennials, and the generations that follow, are shaping technology. This generation has grown up with computing in the palm of their hands. They are more socially and globally connected through mobile Internet devices than any prior generation. And they don't question; they just learn.
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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
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Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
A Distant Mirror -
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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