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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry, a hundred in dress.
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
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A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
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A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samÄdhi.
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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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