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• Every man's work is a portrait of himself.
• No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to.
  It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself...
• I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
  Marcus Aurelius, Meditatio...
• Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Sect. 1, Memb. 3...
• Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
  -- Barrie...
• Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
  -- J.M. Barrie...
• Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
  -- Jacques Cousteau, 'Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence'...
• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
  Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man....
• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
  Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw...