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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
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"Reason" is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
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''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
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''How do you know so much about everything?'' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ''By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.
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'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
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... if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
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20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity.
Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.PENN Address (2004) -
A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
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A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the perfect dad? I shudder at thinking what that may be.
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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk.
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A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
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A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
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