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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.
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The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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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) -
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.
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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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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) -
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.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
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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.
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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.
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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
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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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The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
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The office should seek the man, not man the office.
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The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
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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.
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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
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