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Men Quotes by Patrick O'Brian
- I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.
- For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it...
- No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.
- ...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent…
- Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the…
- I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for…
- You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals…
- For my own part,' said Captain Aubrey, 'I have no notion of disliking a man for his beliefs, above all if he was born with…
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- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare