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  • Aaron Hill The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Will Rogers The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Bert Williams The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortunes.
    The American Magazine, Volume 85
    Bert Williams
    American entertainer and comedian (1874 - 1922)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Plutarch The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Pittacus The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Malcolm X The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Joseph Conrad The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • William Hazlitt The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Oscar Wilde The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William James The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Raymond Chandler The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Charles Baudelaire The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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