Quotes 1721 till 1740 of 2161.
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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
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There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
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There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.
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There be some men who are born only to suck out the poison of books.
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There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.
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There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it.
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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
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There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
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There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm. Men will always be attracted to women with nice soft arms and a fleshy bosom.
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There is a history in all men's lives.
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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.
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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life
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