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Men

«It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.»
Author: B. Earl Puckett | About: Men
«It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel | About: Men | Keywords: expresses
«I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another»
Author: Homer | About: Communication, Men | Keywords: depths, detest, detested, detesting, detests, hides
«I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me»
Author: Jane Rule (Critic, Novelist) | About: Being a Woman, Men | Keywords: height, outraged, the Graces
«I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him»
Author: Max Beerbohm (Wit, Writer) | About: Genius, Men | Keywords: defect
«It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | About: Men | Keywords: graciously, tactfully
«I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man»
«It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.»
«It is the ignorant and childish part of man that is the fighting part»
«It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Learning, Men | Keywords: argued, knave, to advantage