“A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.”
William Shenstone (1714–1763) English gardener
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
Disputed
“A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.”
William Shenstone (1714–1763) English gardener
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
Julien Benda (1867–1956) French essayist
Source: Treason of the Intellectuals (1927), pp. 126-127 (regarding homo faber)
Dmitri Volkogonov (1928–1995) Russian military officer (colonel-general) and historian
Volkogonov
Dmitri
1996
Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary
Free Press, Simon and Schuster
https://books.google.com/books?id=3dCc5Ovw4sUC&pg=PA409#v=onepage&f=false
9780684822938
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Barry Switzer (1937) American football player and coach
[The Unknown Barry Switzer - Poverty, Tragedy Build Oklahoma Coach into a Winner, Tom Shatel, December 14, 1986, Chicago Tribune, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-12-14-8604030680-story.html, October 1, 2018]
Javon Ringer (1987) All-American college football player, professional football player, running back
Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis, quoted at Ringer 23.com (undated)
Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974) Polish-born British mathematician
The Common Sense of Science (1951), on the influence of Isaac Newton.
James Agate (1877–1947) British diarist and critic
Ego, p. 303, September 17, 1933.