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  • Barten Holyday A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
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  • Lord George Byron A man must serve his time to every trade save censure - critics all are ready made.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Henry David Thoreau A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barbra Streisand A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Marlene Dietrich A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Georges Clemenceau A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Bryant H. McGill A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Fisher Ames A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.
    Fisher Ames
    American politician (1758 - 1808)
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • A. E. Housman A neck God made for other use Than strangling in a string.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Ben Jonson A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Luis Bunuel A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Joan Didion A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Mark Twain A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Robert W. Service A promise made is a debt unpaid.
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  • St. Francis de Sales A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Bill Owens A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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