“Mr. Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him.”
Source: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 1
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“A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.”
A Utopia of Usurers (1917)
“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”
As quoted in The Great Quotations (1971) edited by George Seldes, p. 641
Source: Culture series, The Player of Games (1988), Chapter 2 (p. 277).
“A man that's fond precociously of stirring,
Must be a spoon.”
Morning Meditations (1839), St. 10.
1830s
“If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.”
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Third State of the Union Address (7 December 1903)
1900s
“He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 62.
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XX : Persistence; Mrs. Maxwell to Helen