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  • Samuel Johnson If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Sigmund Freud If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Arnold Rothstein If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.
    Arnold Rothstein
    American racketeer, businessman and gambler (1882 - 1928)
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  • Socrates If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Seneca If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bram Stoker If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the future should bring to you a time when you need a man's help, believe me, you will not call in vain. God grant that no such time may ever come to you to break the sunshine of your life; but if it should ever come, promise me that you will let me know.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Horace If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Norman Mailer If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Nick Lappos If a place needs helicopters, it's probably not worth visiting.
    Nick Lappos
    American helicopter technician
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  • Sydney Justin Harris If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Ann Coulter If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • William Faulkner If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the ''Ode on a Grecian Urn'' is worth any number of old ladies.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ouida If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Blaise Pascal If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Blaise Pascal If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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