Quotes 41 till 60 of 10005.
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''To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.
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A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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: One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.
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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
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A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
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A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.
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Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
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Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.
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A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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