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A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.
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A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
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A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
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A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
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A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth - either epileptic or dead.
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
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A sumptuous dwelling the rich man hath. And dainty is his repast; but remember that luxury's prodigal hand keeps the furnace of toil in blast.
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what a man needs to be happy ?
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