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Man Quotes by John Jay Chapman
- Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog…
- The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its…
- The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint.…
- The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows…
- The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows…
- A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men,…
- One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to…
- The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.
- The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.
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- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
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- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
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