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A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.
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A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little ''personal characteristics.''
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A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
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A man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
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A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
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A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wideawake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps.
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A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
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A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.
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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
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A man in public life expects to be sneered at - it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
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A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.
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A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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