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  • Charles Darwin It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Winston Churchill It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
    Source: My early life (1930)
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Benjamin Franklin It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Abraham Cowley It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Buddha It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter It is a man's world, and you men can have it.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Sir Richard Steele It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Francis Bacon It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Jane Austen It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Henry Wheeler Shaw It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
    Henry Wheeler Shaw
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • James Baldwin It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Jane Austen It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Adolf Hitler It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Sydney Smith It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Voltaire It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Seneca It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Jonathan Swift It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • George Robert Gissing It is as idle to range against man's fatuity as to hope that he will ever be less a fool.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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