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A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
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I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be…
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains…
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When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
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A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to…
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What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he…
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
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Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which…
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Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he…
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We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up…
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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.…
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it…
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are…
— Art Buchwald
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Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of…
— Maya Angelou
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It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no…
— Stephen Charnock
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Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.
— Oswald Chambers
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It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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In short, a man must be set free from the sin he is , which makes him do the sin he does…
— George MacDonald
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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
— William Cobbett
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At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The…
— Maria Montessori
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Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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