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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some… — F. H. Bradley
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better. — William Wycherley
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. — Frederick Buechner
No man is a success in business unless he loves his work. — Florence Scovel Shinn
A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. — Vilayat Inayat Khan
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. — Malcolm De Chazal
God never made his work for man to mend. — John Dryden
Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do. — Robin G. Collingwood
To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen. — Quintus Ennius
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. — George Meredith
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. — Antonio Porchia
In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features… — Ellsworth Huntington
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. — B. C. Forbes
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that ... he… — Robin G. Collingwood
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek. — Claude Bernard
Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of… — Ellsworth Huntington
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man… — Archibald MacLeish
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. — James Anthony Froude
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. — Agnes Repplier
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. — Lucian Freud
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. — Robert Frost
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness. — Anthony Trollope
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas. — Norman McLaren
The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but… — John Keegan
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

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