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In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that "a woman is as good as a man," without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: (...) that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual... Dorothy L. Sayers
Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will not pretend to say that Heaven always apportions to a man's capability of endurance the anguish with which he afflicts him...Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded in other words the weak suffer more where the trial is the same than the strong. Alexander Dumas
A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. Henry Ward Beecher
Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .. . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of... J. R. R. Tolkien
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the..."
I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy. Arthur Conan Doyle
Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time. Aldous Huxley
Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice. Ayn Rand
Henry Ford quote: "The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are..."
The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you? Henry Ford
The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement. What is weakness in the man becomes a quality in the writer. For he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work. That is why the writer is the loneliest man in the world; because he lives, fights, dies, is reborn... Anais Nin
Victor Hugo quote: "Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I..."
Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great man. Each of us can profit by it. Victor Hugo
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The more a man looks at a thing, the less he can see it, and..."
The more a man looks at a thing, the less he can see it, and the more a man learns a thing, the less he knows it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
I quite understand you. You mean that an innocent lie for the sake of a good joke is harmless, and does not offend the human heart. Some people lie, if you like to put it so, out of pure friendship, in order to amuse their fellows; but when a man makes use of extravagance in order to show his disrespect and to make clear how the intimacy bores him, it is time for a man of honour to break off the said intimacy., and to teach the offender his place. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Virgil quote: "Arma virumque cano........."*Literally: "I sing of arms and..."
Arma virumque cano........."*Literally: "I sing of arms and man".__I sing the praises of a man's stuggles__ Virgil
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going. Friedrich Nietzsche
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Any man can call time out but no man can say how long the time..."
Any man can call time out but no man can say how long the time will be out. Kurt Vonnegut

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