#his

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. ↗

— Mencius

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He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. ↗

— Herman Melville

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There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke. ↗

— Herman Melville

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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. ↗

— Herman Melville

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The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. ↗

— Mencius

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The character of a man is known from his conversations. ↗

— Menander

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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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