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- Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to…
- Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
- All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
- The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
- We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
- Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
- The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
- A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
- Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
- Let every man be true and every god a liar.
- A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
- A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
- Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
- One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
- The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
- The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
- The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
- There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
- They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
- Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
- Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
- Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
- Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
- Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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