Quotes with plains-man

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  • Samuel Johnson No man was ever great by imitation.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Terence No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge No man was ever yet a great poet, without begin at the same time a profound philosopher.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Will Durant No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Demosthenes No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • George Bernard Shaw No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John Milton No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Thomas Jefferson No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • David Seabury No man will work for your interests unless they are his.
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Tallulah Bankhead No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Edgar W. Howe No man's credit is ever as good as his money.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Francis Bacon No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • John Locke No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Benjamin Haydon No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Booker T. Washington No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Miller No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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