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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Desire
Alphonse De Lamartine

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There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
Achievement
Alphonse De Lamartine

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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Competition
Charles Lamb

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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Journalism and Journalists
Charles Lamb

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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Value
Ann Landers

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Happiness
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Justice
Walter Savage Landor

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Humankind
Walter Savage Landor

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He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination.
Statistics
Andrew Lang

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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
Potential
Lao-Tzu

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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Desire
Lao-Tzu

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Nature is not human hearted.
Nature
Lao-Tzu

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The supply of government exceeds demand.
Government
Lewis H. Lapham

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
Mistakes
Doug Larson

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I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.
Competition
Luther Lassiter

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.
Music
Geoffrey Latham

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Common Sense is in medicine the master workman.
Common Sense
Peter Latham

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Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.
Discretion
Latvian Proverb

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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
God
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
Inheritance
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.
Friends and Friendship
Lewis E. Lawes

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.
Failure
Lewis E. Lawes

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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
Prostitution
D. H. Lawrence

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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
Men and Women
D. H. Lawrence

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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
Flowers
D. H. Lawrence

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun