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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
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The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.
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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
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What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.
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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
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A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
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I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.
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It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.
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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.
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But for this very reason no doctor dare accuse another of malpractice. He is not sure enough of his own opinion to ruin another man by it.
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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
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The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.
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Born:
July 26, 1856
Died:
November 2, 1950
(aged 94)
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