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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
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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 conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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 has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
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A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
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A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself.
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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
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A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
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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.
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A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profits he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
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A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
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A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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