James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"An Introduction", The Fireside Book of Dog Stories (Simon and Schuster, 1943); reprinted in Thurber's Dogs (1955)
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“Not frequently man from man.”
As quoted in the translation of Thomas Taylor (1818); This has been interpreted as being an exhortation to moderation in homosexual liaisons.
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George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
Speech at the Hatch Memorial Shell, Boston, Massachusetts (7 June 1945), quoted in The Last Days of Patton (1981), p. 85, by Ladislas Farago and The Patton Papers: 1940-1945 (1974), p. 721, edited by Martin Blumenson.
"Selections from the Allen Notebooks".
Source: Without Feathers (1975)
“There is as much to be learned from a man with little, as there is from a man with much.”
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Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America
Source: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter X-XIV, Chapter XIII.
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 36.
James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)
As quoted in The Federalist https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101037492095;seq=202;skin=mobile (Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1818), p. 194, James Madison, Federalist #37. <br class="br">1770s
“God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Dios le ha dado mucho al hombre; pero el hombre quisiera algo del hombre.
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“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”
John Bunyan (1628–1688) English Christian writer and preacher