Miscellaneous Collections

Miscellaneous Collections

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No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
-- Thomas Fulle...
No man can be wise on an empty stomach. -- George Elio
No man can lose what he never had. -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap.
v...
No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.
-- Chesterfield...
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
-- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.
-- John Trumbull (1750-1831) -- McFingal, Canto iii, Line 489...
No man ever became extremely wicked all at once. -- Juvenal (47-138 AD) -- Satire ii, 83
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Fortune...
No man, examining his marriage intelligently, can fail to observe that it is compounded, at least in part, of slavery, and that he is the slave.
-- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), "The Portable Curmudgeo...

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