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A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money.
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
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A fool... is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
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A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of the men in the pinstripes, also known as the Boys on the Street. When the Boys are in a good mood, the market thrives; when they get scared or sullen, it is time for each one of us to look into the retail apple business.
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A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
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A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
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A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
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A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.
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A gentleman is a man whose principal ideas are not connected with his personal needs and his personal succes.
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A gentleman reading a poem that began with Where is that man that never yet did hear
Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen? calling his cook, asked if he had ever heard of her, who answering No, demonstrate to him Lo, there the man that never yet did hear
Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen.Source: Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden -
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
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A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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