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  • William Shakespeare Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Horace Life gives nothing to man without labor.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • William Shakespeare Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
    Source: King John (1596)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Ogden Nash Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Josh Billings Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Frank Dane Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Johnson Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Khaled Hosseini Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
    Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Walter Benjamin Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Alphonse De Lamartine Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
    Alphonse De Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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  • John Gay Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Paul De Man Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
    Paul De Man
    In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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