Men are seldom more ...

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
 Samuel Butler

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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.
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