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Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.
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Men do less than they ought unless they do all that they can.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.
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Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
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Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
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Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.
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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
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Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
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Men were only made into ''men'' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally ''a man'' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
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Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
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