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  • Carl Sandburg Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • George Moore Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
    George Moore
    Irish writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Freda Adler That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
    Freda Adler
    American criminologist and educator (1934 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Henry David Thoreau That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Thomas Hardy That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Brooks Atkinson The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Aristotle The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Joseph Addison The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Andrew Carnegie The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • James Lendall Basford The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else.
    Source: Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882)
    James Lendall Basford
    American aphorist (1845 - 1915)
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  • William Faulkner The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Aristotle The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • James Baldwin The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Voltaire The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Confucius The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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