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A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
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A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
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A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
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A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust".
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A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.
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A few weeks ago, I was at the gym, talking to a friend about politics. Overhearing the conversation, a young man - maybe 25 years old - interrupted to say, 'Obama? He hasn't done a single thing!'
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A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money.
Essay on man, manners and things (1769) -
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
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A fool... is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
Letter (1792) -
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
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A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
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