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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity,…
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.
— Meryl Streep
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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
— Thucydides
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To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
— Vincent D'Onofrio
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Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood…
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If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.
— David Gest
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
— Kent Nerburn
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Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.
— H. L. Mencken
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