A hard man is good to ...

A hard man is good to find.
A hard man is good to find.

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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.

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Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different.
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.