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Men Quotes by James Stephens
- Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory
- Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.
- Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.
- The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.
- If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not be the futil…
- Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.
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