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Men Quotes by Bernard DeVoto
- Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved…
- Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within…
- The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and women, more nearly…
- Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
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