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Thomas Haliburton, fully Thomas Chandler Haliburton, pseudonym "Sam Slick"

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy - the smile that accepts a lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Whether a man accepts from fortune her spade and will look downward and dig, or from aspiration her axe and cord, and will scale the ice, the one and only success which it is his to command is to bring to his work a mighty heart.

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John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

A police state finds it cannot command the grain to grow.

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Jules Janin

A woman is more responsive to a man's forgetfulness than to his attentions.

Forgetfulness | Man | Wisdom | Woman |

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Okakura Kahuzo

We have an old saying in Japan that a woman cannot love a man who is truly vain, for there is no crevice in his heart for love to enter and fill up.

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Alphonse de Lamartine, fully Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

He is no true man who ever treats women with anything but the profoundest respect. She is no true woman who cannot inspire and does not take care to enforce this. Any real rivalry of the sexes is the sheerest folly and most unnatural nonsense.

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Andrew David Kopkind

To be a revolutionary is to love your life enough to change it, to choose struggle instead of exile, to risk everything with only the glimmering hope of a world to win...Woman loves with her whole soul. To woman love is life, to man it is the joy of life.

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Paulin Limayrac

The heart of a young woman in love is a golden sanctuary which often enshrines an idol of clay.

Heart | Love | Wisdom | Woman |

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Marya Mannes

Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

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Baron de Montesquieu, fully Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu

The principle of democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is extinct, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality, and when each citizen would fain to be upon a level with those whom he has chosen to command him. Then the people, incapable of bearing the very power they have delegated, want to manage everything themselves, to debate for the senate, to execute for the magistrate, and to decide for the judges.

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Jules Michelet

There is no such thing as an old woman. Any woman of any age, if she loves, if she is good, gives a man a sense of the infinite.

Age | Good | Man | Sense | Wisdom | Woman | Old |

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Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

Contentment | Wisdom | Woman |

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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

God | Love | Man | Mistake | Wisdom | Woman | God |

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Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The only good histories are those that have been written by the very men who were in command in the affairs, or who were participants in the conduct of them or who at least have had the fortune to conduct others of the same sort... What can you expect of a doctor discussing war, or a schoolboy discussing the intentions of princes?