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  • Samuel Johnson Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Jane Austen Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Paul Auster Every man is the author of his own life.
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    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Voltaire Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Sir Richard Steele Every man is the maker of his own fortune.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Every man is the son of his own works.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • T. Shadwell Every man loves what he is good at.
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  • Camille Paglia Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Martin Luther Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
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  • Frederick the Great Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait - not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Iris Murdoch Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Sextus Propertius Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
    Sextus Propertius
    Roman poet (47 - 15)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Oscar Wilde Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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