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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • E. B. White It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • John Maynard Keynes It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Barry Gibb It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Havelock Ellis It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Upton Sinclair It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
    Upton Sinclair
    American writer (1878 - 1968)
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