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Men Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.
- I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.
- There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.
- In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
- James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
- They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man…
- There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs…
- A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
- We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?
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