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A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
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A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
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A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
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A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.
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