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Men Quotes by Lafcadio Hearn
- No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe…
- There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself;…
- The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all…
- Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men…
- Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that…
- As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control…
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