Quotes with plains-man

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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Jonathan Swift Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
    Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • James Russell Lowell Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Robert Burton Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.
    The Anatomy of Melancholy Part III, sect. 1,3
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Robert Burton Every man for himself, the devil for all.
    The Anatomy of Melancholy
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Konrad Lorenz Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
    Konrad Lorenz
    German so lied (1903 - 1989)
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  • Camille Paglia Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • John Locke Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Jean Paul Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Barbara Cartland Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that nice girls don't. He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue - but only in a certain section of society.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Josh Billings Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Henry Miller Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Alphonse Karr Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man has, some time in his life, an ambition to be a wag.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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