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This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best cus...

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All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary...

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts and yet they contend successfully that the jo...

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Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as w...

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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give...

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Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a prot...

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Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions o...

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We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another...

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Simon Bolivar, when history led him - and as Karl Marx said, men can make history, but only as far a...

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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to t...

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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

Both men accepted that the nature of the request, its intimacy and self-conscious reflection on thei...

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He wanted a father, and for the same reason, he wanted to be a father.

The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being but because she...

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... male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a ...

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It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man wh...

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Bit it's what bein a hard man is aw aboot; its a journey, a fucking self destructive quest tae find ...

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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors wh...

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Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look...

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Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by ...

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Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her whi...

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​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a t...

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But why give a man something it's so hard to earn? In that respect women are really thick. They're t...

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Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to suppo...

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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not ...

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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

Every black film feels like it's Tyler Perry, and that just needs to stop. But people seem to slowly...

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Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: brea...

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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion ...

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As Miriam released my hand I felt that she and Midwife Bell had returned to a more primitive world, ...

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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be ...

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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to...

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Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It co...

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The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes.

No matter how exotic or seemingly different another man is, there's always some reflection of self i...

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If anything has made men more effeminate in the past half-century, it's been the running feminist cr...

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When someone tells a man to be a man, they mean that there is a way to be a man. A man is not just a...

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When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they’d need to keep t...

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It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to ...

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Against delay. Against the way that seems easier. Against refusal of the burden that is laid on me. ...

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For the rest, they shall represent the other Free Peoples of the World: Elves, Dwarves, and Men, Leg...

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But Ilúvatar knew that Men, being set amid the turmoils of the powers of the world, would stray ofte...

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Indeed the mind of Ilúvatar concerning you is not known to the Valar, and he has not revealed all th...

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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplis...

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You cannot penalize a man for one slip. Then she lay wondering about the word slip. When you slip, y...

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Jackie KayWish I Was Here

Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings h...

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If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men peni...

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The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuadin...

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Nothing spices up one's sex life like having a partner.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Patience is important for a man, vital for a leader

All men of action are dreamers.

One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and p...

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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something lar...

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So beautiful of course compared with what a man looks like with his two bags full and his other thin...

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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the govern...

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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

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James MadisonFederalist Papers Nos. 10 and 51

It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government nece...

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It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little f...

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Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortab...

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Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you ...

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James SalterDusk and Other Stories

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages o...

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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score man wants a great deal here below and Wom...

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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be i...

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much ...

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Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the grea...

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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...

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I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

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Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey

You men have none of you any hearts.''If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment ...

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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan...

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much ...

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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...

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But the same spirits of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is mo...

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That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to h...

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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth...

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What are men to rocks and mountains?

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Jane AustenPride and Prejudice

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i...

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Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of an heavy rain.

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Jane AustenSense and Sensibility

Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking.

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!

You know who must be very secure in their masculinity? Male ladybugs.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You m...

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