Sean Russell - Men Quotes

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Observations interpreted by reason. Few, if any, ideas have had such impact on the lives of men.

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There were no sounds of men, here; only the whisperings of the world of nature, which men often called silence.

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Soldiers, Your Highness. Men trained not to think for themselves.

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Wood is a gift from the world of nature to we undeserving men... One should be thankful for such gifts, take no more than we need, and waste none of that.

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Men who were used to subordinating others to their wills were invariably surprised by rebellion—as though this imaginary prison they created was, in fact, real.

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They fear others—that is why they sought positions of power. Their greatest dream is to have a King who dances when they move the threads: and for Massenet, to marry his child to the heir of Entonne, and sit his grandson upon the throne. The ordinary desires of those who rise to such positions. In their appetites, they are not men of great originality. Though they will do enormous harm in spite of that.

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