Quotes with plains-man

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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Francis Bacon The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bram Stoker The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
    Dracula (1897)
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Bernard Mandeville The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Carl Sandburg The name of an iron man goes round the world.
    It takes a long time to forget an iron man.
    Washington Monument by Night in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Sir William Osler The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Eric Hoffer The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Matthew Arnold The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Martin Luther King The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Baron William Henry Beveridge The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
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  • E. M. Cioran The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Silas Wright The office should seek the man, not man the office.
    Silas Wright
    American Democratic politician (1795 - 1847)
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  • Aeschylus The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Oscar Wilde The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Butler The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Mrs. Jamieson The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
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  • George Eliot The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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