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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
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A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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A man's measure is his will.
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A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
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A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
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A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
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A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
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A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
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A man's possessions are just as large as his own soul. If this title-deeds cover more, the surplus acres own him, not he the acres.
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.
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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
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A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
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