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«While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.»
«Why is it so universally upsetting for men to have women around them on anything like a footing of equality? Why is the resentment as deep-seated as ever, even if it is now underground? Individual men may have no desire whatever to put women in their»
«Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.»
«You may indeed do many works of love and delight in them -- especially at such times as they are not inconvenient to your state or temper or occurrences in life. But the Spirit of Love is not in you till it is the spirit of your life, till you live freely, willingly, and universally according to it.»
«ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (_Musca maledicta_). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us. Two of the science's most illustrious expounders were Buffon and Oliver Goldsmith, from both of whom we learn (_L'Histoire generale des animaux_ and _A History of Animated Nature_) that the domestic cow sheds its horn every two years.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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«To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men»
«What we need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war; something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.»