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Surely man is a being wonderfully vain, changeable, and vacillating.
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There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
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We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly; and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship; for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him.
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Let no man be ashamed to speak what he is not ashamed to think.
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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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Every man carries the entire form of the human condition.
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A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid.
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The worth and value of a man is in his heart and his will; there lies his real honour. Valour is the strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul.
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Man, a subject which is marvellously vain, diverse, and like the waves of the sea.
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A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Born:
February 28, 1533
Died:
September 13, 1592
(aged 59)
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