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• One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Pain, Men, Feelings

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.467

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• The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.

  Susan Sontag

  Witty, Exercise, Men

  "Notes on 'Camp'" by Susan Sontag, note 54, (p. 291), 1964.

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• Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Expression, Honest

  A Curious Dream (1872) "A Mysterious Visit"

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• These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Islamic, Men, Flames

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.242

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• The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

  Ben Jonson

  Hate, Men, Evil

  Ben Jonson, Barry Cornwall (1838). “The Works of B. J. with a Memoir of His Life and Writings, by Barry Cornwall [i.e. B. W. Procter].”, p.741

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• It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

  Seneca the Younger

  Business, Men, Thinking

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• It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  "Sermons on Religion & Life".

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• American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.

  Henry Adams

  Struggle, Men, Years

  Henry Adams (1946). “The Education of Henry Adams”

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• Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.

  Plautus

  Pain, Men, Littles

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• The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Courage, Men, Order

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• Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their culture broadest, but those who have had the power, ceasing in a moment to live only for themselves, to make use of their personality as of a mirror.

  Marcel Proust

  Character, Men, Mirrors

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.884, Delphi Classics

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• So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Men, Personality

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.207

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• The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better.

  E. W. Howe

  Believe, Men, Class

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• The apparel oft proclaims the man.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Advice, Proud

  Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

  Anatole France

  Adventure, Men, Criticism

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• All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

  William Penn

  Men, Mind, Spoil

  "Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims".

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• The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is one who puts his own ease and security above the most laudable of philanthropies.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Games, Ease

  H.L. Mencken (1920). “Prejudices Second Series”

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• All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Past, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3985, Delphi Classics

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• Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Failure, Character, Men

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• The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Failure, Fate, Men

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1909). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation”

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• Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Guilt, Unqualified

  Jonathan Swift (1752). “The works of D. Jonathan Swift ...: To which is prefixed, the doctor's life, with remarks on his writings, from the Earl of Orrery and others, not to be found in any former edition of his works.Dublin printed”, p.281

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• The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Real, Men, Justice

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.389, Best Books on

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• The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Men, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.92, Penguin

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• The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Men, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.222, Harvard University Press

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