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  • Daniel Defoe Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • John Irving Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
    The World According To Garp (2012)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Beilby Porteus Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • W. M. Thackeray Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! - what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Alexander Pope Know than this truth (enough for man to know): I virtue alone is happinea below.
    Essay on Man
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alexander Pope Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alexander Pope Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Lao-Tzu Know they thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.
    The Fable of the Bees An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools, p. 328
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Ulysses S. Grant Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.
    Ulysses S. Grant
    American Army general (1822 - 1885)
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  • Mary McCarthy Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ''work'' of man.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Samuel Johnson Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Arthur E. Morgan Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
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  • Max Muller Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
    Max Muller
    British-German orientalist and philologist (1823 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Johnson Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Leon Trotsky Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • George Santayana Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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