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Men Quotes by George Sand
- A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner.…
- If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated…
- Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.
- Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
- Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language…
- I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's true…
- I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while…
- The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.
- A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me,…
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