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Men Quotes by Geraldine Brooks
- Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table,…
- When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The…
- To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.
- If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.
- If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.
- Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — 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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