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> [He that will not reflect is a ruined man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asian-proverb/he-that-will-not-reflect-is-a-ruined-man/)

[Asian Proverb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asian-proverb/)

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> [Success has ruined many a man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/success-has-ruined-many-a-man/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/104/benjamin-franklin-65_inspirational_success-has-ruined-many-a-man-3181599_3181599.png)

> [It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/washington-irving/it-is-not-poverty-so-much-as-pretense-that-harasses-a-ruined-man/)

[Washington Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/washington-irving/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e88/washington-irving-1386_hollow_it-is-not-poverty-so-much-as-pretense-th_3188661.png)

> [“The boy I’d ruined had become the man to save me from my oblivion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-johnson/the-boy-i-d-ruined-had-become-the-man-to-save-me-from-my-oblivion/)

[A.M. Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-johnson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a4/a-m-johnson-72007_quote_the-boy-i-d-ruined-had-become-the-man-to_1645829.jpg)

> [A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mile-zola/a-ruined-man-fell-from-her-hands-like-a-ripe-fruit-to-lie-rotting-on/)

[Emile Zola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mile-zola/)

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> [It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/washington-irving/it-is-not-poverty-so-much-as-pretense-that-harasses-a-ruined-man-the/)

[Washington Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/washington-irving/)

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> [The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/the-doctor-learns-that-if-he-gets-ahead-of-the-superstitions-of-his/)

[George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/)

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> [The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-taylor-coleridge/the-author-of-biographia-literaria-was-already-a-ruined-man-sometimes/)

[Samuel Taylor Coleridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-taylor-coleridge/)

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> [That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/that-immaculate-manliness-we-feel-within-ourselves-so-far-within-us/)

[Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/897/herman-melville-162_anguish_that-immaculate-manliness-we-feel-within_1602659.jpg)

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