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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

All men are sinners.

All men think all men mortal but themselves.

No one aspires to be the working man. Everyone aspires to be The Man.

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So long as men firmly believe that everything is fixed for them, so long is progress impossible.

Richard Jefferies, British naturalist and writer (1848–1887)

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It is impossible to improve the world if first the man does not improve

Plato, 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher

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Against the years all men campaign in vain.

All men must die

George R. R. Martin, American writer and television producer (born 1948)

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All men hate the wretched.

All men are created unequal.

Robert A. Heinlein, American author and aeronautical engineer (1907–1988)

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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do,

Voltaire, French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778)

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All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

Edmund Burke, Anglo-Irish statesman, political theorist and conservative philosopher (1729–1797)

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Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

William Wallace, Scottish knight and leading figure in the First War of Scottish Independence

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No man is great if he thinks he is.

Will Rogers, American humorist and entertainer (1879–1935)

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