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A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
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A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
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According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean anything to most men. But I wouldn't date a man who slept around. Absolutely not. I've divorced people for that.
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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
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Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of ''artistic'' expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.
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Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.
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Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
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After all he is only a man, that is to say capable of little and of much, of all and of nothing; he is neither angel nor brute, but man.
Pensees (1669)
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