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Man Quotes by Richard Whately
- Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
- Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
- Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which…
- A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.
- When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.
- The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion…
- That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.
- Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.
- A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
- A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
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