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Men Quotes by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
- Dreaming men are haunted men.
- American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are…
- Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.
- Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the…
- I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when…
- Books are not men and yet they are alive.
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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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