Quotes 2141 till 2160 of 4570.
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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
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Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Source: Fanny's First Play 85 -
Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
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Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
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Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
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Men now monopolize the upper levels… depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
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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 of great conversational powers almost universally practice a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
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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 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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