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The last I heard of the young man in question, he was trying to eke out a miserable existence as a book agent while he was looking about for a position somewhere with the Government as a janitor or for some other equally humble occupation.
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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms - hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.
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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.
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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
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The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
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The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.
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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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The major deterrent to war is in a man's mind.
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The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards - material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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