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Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

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A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

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A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.

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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night... Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.

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It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

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I fancy that he will be a great statesman. After all, Mr. Finn, that is the best thing a man can be, unless it is given him to be a saint and a martyr and all that kind of thing, — which is not just what a mother looks for.

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The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.

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My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.

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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards — When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.

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There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

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Men when they are true are simple. They are often false has hell, and then they are crafty as Lucifer. But the man who is true judges others by himself, — almost without reflection. A woman can be true as steel and cunning at the same time.

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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

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He made his point well; but he made it too often. And an attack of that kind, personal and savage in its nature, loses its effect when it is evident that the words have been prepared. A good deal may be done in dispute by calling a man an ass or a knave, — but the resolve to use the words should have been made only at the moment, and they should come hot from the heart.

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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.

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We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.

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In political matters it is very hard for a man in office to be purer than his neighbours, — and, when he is so, he becomes troublesome.

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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

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Would that be justice, ladies? asked the just man.
It would be success, Mr. Low, — which is a great deal the better thing of the two.

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Now a conjuror is I think a very pleasant fellow to have among us, if we know that he is a conjuror; — but a conjuror who is believed to do his tricks without sleight of hand is a dangerous man.

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When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.

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But how shall I excuse it? There are things done which are as holy as the heavens, — which are clear before God as the light of the sun, which leave no stain on the conscience, and which yet the malignity of man can invest with the very blackness of hell!

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When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

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A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.

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The property of manliness in a man is a great possession, but perhaps there is none that is less understood, — which is more generally accorded where it does not exist, nor more frequently disallowed where it prevails.

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