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His Quotes by John Steinbeck
- Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
- It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
- Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
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- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold