#himself

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. ↗

— James Thurber

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I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction. ↗

— Gene Tierney

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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. ↗

— John Wooden

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The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. ↗

— Andre Gide

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Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. ↗

— William Godwin

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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. ↗

— William Godwin

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The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. ↗

— William Godwin

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A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is? ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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