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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.

Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!

He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!

There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.

Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them.

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.

No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit.

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

The resources of this earth are inexhaustible, because God made man's mind inexhaustible.