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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 pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
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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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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.
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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 quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
St. Francis de Sales
Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622) -
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
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