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  • Samuel Johnson Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Edward Parsons Day Wine makes a poor man rich in imagination, a rich man poor in reality.
    Edward Parsons Day
    English editor (1822 - 1906)
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  • Babur Wine maketh a man act like an ass in a rich pasture.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Clarence Darrow With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Buddha With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • George Eliot With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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W. Bruce Cameron With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on Oprah, Fox News, the Early Show, and Good Morning America. Oprah was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short; you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Ezra Pound With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Harry S. Truman Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Sir Edwin Arnold Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
    Sir Edwin Arnold
    English poet and journalist (1832 - 1904)
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  • Bram Stoker Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Homer Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Francis Bacon Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • George Gurdjieff Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • B. C. Forbes Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success – for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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