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  • Algernon Sydney A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Lord Greville A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.
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  • William Butler Yeats A gentleman is a man whose principal ideas are not connected with his personal needs and his personal succes.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Ben Jonson A gentleman reading a poem that began with Where is that man that never yet did hear
    Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen? calling his cook, asked if he had ever heard of her, who answering No, demonstrate to him Lo, there the man that never yet did hear
    Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen.
    Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Frederick Douglas A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • E. B. White A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Brigham Young A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • James Russell Lowell A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Alexander Smith A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bruno Mars A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don't know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn't have cash on him.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II A hungry man is not a free man.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Philip Roth A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • John Selden A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Russell Lynes A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.
    Russell Lynes
    American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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  • Samuel Butler A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Miles Davis A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
    Miles Davis
    American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926 - 1991)
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