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1 " It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. "
― Aeschylus
2 " The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music. "
― W.H. Auden
3 " There are very few men and women, I suspect, who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without losing forever some of the nonchalant extravagance of the Twenties. They will feel, until their final days on earth, a kind of culinary caution: butter, no matter how unlimited, is a precious substance not lightly to be wasted; meats, too, and eggs, and all the far-brought spices of the world, take on a new significance, having once been so rare. And that is good, for there can be no more shameful carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts. "
― M.F.K. Fisher , The Art of Eating
4 " Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is--if it's just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing. "
― Truman Capote , Summer Crossing
5 " The fact is very few men live harmoniously, while most of us survive miraculously! "
6 " As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one thing for him... Honor. A man's honor should be more sacred to him than his life — especially in our age, a time when very few men know what honor is. "
― Roman Payne
7 " Don't you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say...what has to be said? "
― Colette
8 " It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women. "
