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  • Anthony Trollope Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Josh Billings Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Maxwell Maltz Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Blaise Pascal Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
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    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Barry Williams Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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  • John Locke Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Robert Frost Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Geoffrey Chaucer Time and tide wait for no man.
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    British poet (1340 - 1400)
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  • Herbert Spencer Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Ralph Hodgson Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
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  • Gore Vidal To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Joseph Conrad To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • George Eliot To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Mark Twain To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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