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Men Quotes by Leo Rosten
- In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we…
- You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most…
- Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.
- Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
- I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other…
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