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Men Quotes by Rafael Sabatini
- The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.
- In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is…
- It came to Mr. Blood, as he trudged forward under the laden apple-trees on that fragrant, delicious July morning, that man—as he had long suspected—was…
- When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself
- Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest…
- Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it,…
- To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.
- A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the…
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