“ How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention! ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
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“ Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way, and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said, "If you truly love me, kill the bartender… ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
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“ History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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