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- If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all…
- Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
- A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
- Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
- The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
- A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but…
- Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
- Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men,…
- I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
- The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs…
- Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well,…
- I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a…
- Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in…
- You must look into people, as well as at them.
- So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular…
- Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway.
- A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
- An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.
- A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.
- I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who,…
- Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
- Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
- Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that…
- Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest…
- Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.
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- 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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