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Men Quotes by Benjamin Haydon
- To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to…
- One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who…
- When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
- The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the…
- The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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