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  • Don Marquis When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lord Chesterfield When a man wants your advice he generally wants your praise.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • C. S. Forester When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
    The African Queen (1935)
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Euripides When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Aeschylus When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Jonson When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Edith Evans When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
    Observer (30 september 1956)
    Edith Evans
    English actress (1888 - 1976)
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Alice Duer Miller When a woman like that whom I've seen so much,
    All of a sudden drops out of touch;
    Is always busy and never can,
    Spare you a moment, it means a man.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Oscar Wilde When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George D. Prentice When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
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  • Benjamin Harrison When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
    State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bhagavad Gita When he has no lust, no hatred,
    A man walks safely among the things of lust and hatred
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Marc Chagall When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.
    Marc Chagall
    Russian-French artist and painter (1887 - 1985)
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  • Abraham Lincoln When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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