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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Samuel Richardson

Wife, Mistress, Bear

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Women, Power, Wish

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Bad, Giving

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

General, Easier, Particular

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch

Love, Women, Living

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Rather, Succeed, Means

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Society, Nothing

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing, Advice, Generous

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
Camille Paglia

Women, Envy, Nothing

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wrong, Bear, Oftener

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Strong, Enough, Bear

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Truth, Design

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
Giacomo Casanova

Love, Women, Deceit

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Great, Important, Democracy

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Powerful, Down, Different

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Live, Justice, Find

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.
Cardinal Richelieu

Him, Give, Find

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Frederick Douglass

Wind, Expect, Reap

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Horace Mann

Education, Great, Human

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life, Health, Power

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.
Rick Perry

Work, Women, Government

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Francis Bacon

Wisdom, Wise, Find

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
Andrea Dworkin

Women, Freedom, Struggle

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Courage, Opinion, Face

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
William Blake

Experience, Wisdom, Wife

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