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A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
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A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
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A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
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A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
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A man's library is a sort of harem.
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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
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A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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A man's measure is his will.
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A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
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A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
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A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
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A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
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A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
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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 possessions are just as large as his own soul. If this title-deeds cover more, the surplus acres own him, not he the acres.
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