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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 kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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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 applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
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Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
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Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win.
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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 say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
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Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
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Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
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Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids.
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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
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Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only.
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Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
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Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.
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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.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
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