He lifted himself up by his own bootstraps.
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- Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. -- Seneca
- Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask and he will tell the truth. Oscar Wilde... - He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
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for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach unto himself.... - He doth nothing but talk of his horse; and he makes it a great appropriation
to his own good parts, that he can shoe himself.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice -- Act i, Sc. 2... - He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppressio
for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.... - He that uses many words for the explaining any subject, doth like
the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
-- Ray... - He is a legend in his own mind.
- To date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man- man himself.
He must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him. -- Lazarus Long... - The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself. PAGNOL
