Quotes with plains-man

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  • Oscar Wilde The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Carl Van Vechten The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • William Wordsworth The child is father of the man.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • William Wordsworth The child is the father of the man.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • John Milton The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Burn Gorman The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.
    Burn Gorman
    British actor and musician (1974 - )
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  • Arthur Miller The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Aldous Huxley The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Hobbes The condition of man is a condition of war of every one against everyone.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Napoleon The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Victor Hugo The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ben Johnson The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Antoni Gaudi The creation continues incessantly through the media of man.
    Antoni Gaudi
    Catalan architect
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  • Raymond Chandler The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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