People Quotations
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| You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door. | |||
| - Henry Ward Beecher | |||
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| He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. | |||
| - Sir Winston Churchill | |||
| A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. | |||
| - Sir Winston Churchill | |||
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| History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. | |||
| - Abba Eban | |||
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| An idealist is a man who helps other people to be prosperous. | |||
| - Henry Ford | |||
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| Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. | |||
| - Benjamin Franklin | |||
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| The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. | |||
| - Nathaniel Hawthorne | |||
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| I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation. | |||
| - William Somerset Maugham | |||
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| The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
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| A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. | |||
| - Arthur Miller | |||
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| A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man. | |||
| - Antonio Porchia | |||
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| If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. | |||
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld | |||
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| A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it. | |||
| - Helen Rowland | |||
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| What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. | |||
| - Susan Sontag | |||
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| Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank? | |||
| - Walt Whitman | |||