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“I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.”

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“George goes to sleep at a bank from ten to four each day, except Saturdays, when they wake him up and put him outside…

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“He would use a bit of string this time, and at the critical moment, when the old fool was leaning over the chair at an angle of forty-five, and trying to reach a point three inches beyond what was possible for him to reach, the string would slip, and down he would slide on to the piano, a really fine…

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Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous - almost…

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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a…

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Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

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We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet…

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“There was no ground-floor — its ground-floor belonged to a house in the next court, and the front door opened direct upon a flight of stairs leading down to the cellar. Visitors on entering the house would suddenly shoot past the person who had answered the door to them and disappear down these stairs. Those of a nervous temperament used…

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“I can understand the ignorant masses loving to soak themselves in drink—oh, yes, it's very shocking that they should, of course—very shocking to us who live in cozy homes, with all the graces and pleasures of life around us, that the dwellers in damp cellars and windy attics should creep from their dens of misery into the warmth and glare…

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They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in…

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“And we sit there, by its margin, while the moon, who loves it too, stoops down to kiss it with a sister’s kiss, and…

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“The only feeling that a closer intimacy has created in him for his wife is that of indulgent contempt. As there is no equality between man and woman, so there can be no respect. She is a different being. He must either look up to her as superior to himself, or down upon her as inferior. When a man does…

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Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

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Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive…

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“I took ten days off and by 11 o’clock on the first morning I had drunk fourteen cups of coffee, read all the newspapers and the Guardian and then… and then what? By lunchtime I was so bored that I decided to hang a few pictures. So I found a hammer, and later a man came to replaster the bits…

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One day I woke up and Juventus wanted me, another Manchester United and what I know is that there were approaches made. But an…

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“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing…

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Never break another man's rice bowl.

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“One theory on cannibals, of course, is that they eat parts of their slain enemies to benefit from that person's greatest assets - their strength, their courage. Then there’s that thing they do in Germany. You heard about that, didn’t you? Some man over there agreed to let another man cut off his penis, cook it, then feed it to…

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I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for…

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“If you aren't in love, Willow Vaughn, then my name isn't Miriam Brigham." Willow started out of her daydreaming and glanced up from the laundry tub. Miriam stood before her with her fists planted on her hips. "Now, Miriam, I-" "No sense denying it, young lady. You've got that dreamy dazed glow about you. Rider Sinclair isn't much better, the…

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“One man accomplishment Is another mans failure.”

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“Hell, I bet there's another man right now on the other side of this planet, standing in the pouring rain, fighting desperately for the…

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The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.

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Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to…

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