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“The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.”
“Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industri...”
“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”
“What is pain to a man? A privilege!”
“In the current state of society, it seems to me that man is corrupted more by reason than by passion.”
“It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.”
“Man be my metaphor’,”
“Every man carries his own past with him," Hayt said.”
“Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to m...”
“We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.”
“Women are more evolved biologically and emotionally, that’s well knownand it’s obvious. But they confuse sex and the spirit; they don’tseparate. Men, as you know, always separate: they separatethei...”
“The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.”
“Never test another man by your own weakness.”
“They say my verse is sad: no wonder.Its narrow measure spansRue for eternity, and sorrowNot mine, but man'sThis is for all ill-treated fellowsUnborn and unbegot,For them to read when they're in tro...”
“The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.”
“mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have ma...”
“You don't mean to say that Hogan has turned into a woman? Why, yes, that's him all right, you can recognize him by the fact that he has two legs, two arms, and an indecipherable face. Man, woman, w...”
“An average woman is in this superior to an average man—that she never instigates, only responds.”
“Only a real man has the right to stand at the pinnacle.”
“man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the Universe, and the human mind ...”
