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Men Quotes by George William Curtis
- I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart…
- Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a blind devotion; in…
- Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
- A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to…
- Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
- The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that…
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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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