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Jodi Picoult quote: "The old man was cranky, bitter bastard, but it’s the thorn in..."
The old man was cranky, bitter bastard, but it’s the thorn in your side that leaves the biggest hole. Jodi Picoult
Willa Cather quote: "You never really knew a man, he said, until you saw him die"
You never really knew a man, he said, until you saw him die Willa Cather
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Misfortune is liable to make me a damn bad man"
Misfortune is liable to make me a damn bad man F. Scott Fitzgerald
My irritation with Niles was growing, though. I had always thought the quiet man was the most overrated form of human life". Pat Conroy
Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late. Lawrence Durrell
It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" and "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle
No prizefighter can go with high spirits into the strife if he has never been beaten black and blue; the only contestant who can confidently enter the lists is the man who has seen his own blood, who has felt his teeth rattle beneath his opponent's fist, who has been tripped and felt the full force of his adversary's charge, who has been downed in bloody but not it spirit, one who as often as he falls, rises again with greater defiance than ever. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Fear the time when the bombs stop falling while the bombers live - for every bomb is proof that the spirit has not died...And this you can know - fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself, and this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe. John Steinbeck
Anthony Trollope quote: "The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the..."
The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning. Anthony Trollope
Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government, and earthly despotism would be the absolute perfect earthly government if the conditions were the same; namely the despot the perfectest individual of the human race, and his lease of life perpetual; but as a perishable, perfect man must die and leave his despotism in the hands of an imperfect successor, an earthly despotism is not merely a bad form of government, it... Mark Twain
God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization. Christopher Hitchens
Hesitation, anxiety, the struggle between belief and disbelief—all that is sometimes such a torment for a conscientious man... that it’s better to hang oneself. Fyodor Dostoevsky
A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles, was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books. As we entered he wheeled excitedly around and examined Jordan from head to foot. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second..."
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on? Bram Stoker

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