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1 " A woman’s love is all a man should expect from his wife. That love could be translated into so many positive things, especially if it is reciprocated. "
2 " That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man. "
― Charles Bukowski , Factotum
3 " Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back. "
― Marcus Aurelius
4 " The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field that prepares for battle, but none of us will turn and run or else we will be despised for ever. We pretend we want to be there, and when the wall at last advances, step by step, and the heart is thumping fast as a bird’s wing beating, the world seems unreal. "
― Bernard Cornwell , The Flame Bearer (The Saxon Stories, #10)
5 " Tarrou had " lost the match," as he put it. But what had he, Rieux, won? No more than the experience of having known plague and remembering it, of having known friendship and remembering it, of knowing affection and being destined one day to remember it. So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories. But Tarrou, perhaps, would have called that winning the match. "
6 " After all, that’s all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance. "
― Mark Lawrence
7 " Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart-it's all a man has. "
8 " That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history. "
9 " There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. "
