Quotes with men-intellectuals

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  • Samuel Johnson I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Frank Moore Colby I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Charles Dickens I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • William Butler Yeats I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Douglas Macarthur I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Marcus Aurelius I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Francis Bacon I have rather studied books than men.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Albrecht Durer I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Benjamin Jowett I hope our young men will not grow into such dodgers as these old men are. I believe everything that a young man says to me (p. 250).
    Letters
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Booker T. Washington I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
    Up From Slavery (1901)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Emily Dickinson I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Oscar Wilde I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) h. 15
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Guillaume Apollinaire I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Italian-born French poet, critic (1880 - 1918)
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  • Euripides I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Charles Lamb I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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