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  • Alphonse Karr Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • William Saroyan Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Martin Heidegger Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
    Martin Heidegger
    German philosopher (1889 - 1976)
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  • Francis Herbert Hedge Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
    Francis Herbert Hedge
    British philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Camille Paglia Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Martin Luther Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait - not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Iris Murdoch Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Jean Anouilh Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Helen Rowland Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Aldous Huxley Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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