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Men Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley
- If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination…
- No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined…
- Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the…
- It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in…
- Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
- One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human…
- In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a…
- It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in…
- A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order,…
- We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes…
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