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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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The cunning man uses deceit, but the more cunning man shuns deception.
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The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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The cynic says, ''One man can't do anything.'' I say, ''Only one man can do anything.''
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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything - and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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The destiny of man is in his own soul
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The difference between a good man and a bad is the choice of the cause.
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The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
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