Quotes 741 till 760 of 4652.
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.
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A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
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A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
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A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
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A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
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