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“A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.”

People Men Looks Stills Eye Powerful Behinds Violence Lucky Accounts His Eyes Smooth Elegant Very Powerful Powerful Man Older Man

Author:Vincent Piazza

“To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.”

Men Soul Dies Accounts Gentleman Spite Climbs Everest Domes Sciatica

Author:Pierre Daninos

“We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.”

Men Littles Knowledge Accounts Little Knowledge

Author:T. S. Eliot

“He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.”

Men World Heart Moments Eye Compassion Virtue This World Sorrow Accounts Wet Nobility Spirited

Author:Kedar Joshi

“Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.”

Men May Science Ocean Accounts Fishes Carrie One Man Herring

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.”

People Thinking Men Way Has Beens Art Sometimes Literature Individual Leader Mass Accounts Average Department Immense Superiority Great Leader Exhibits Literature And Art

Book:Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days

Source: Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days

“Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?”

Knows Men Persons Known Accounts Remembered Remarkable Best Of Me

Book:The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence

Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence

“If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive.”

Ifs Men I Can Eye Accounts Impressive Exaggeration Imposing Copying

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.”

Men Mind States Conscience Accounts Deeds Arise Hopes And Fears

Author:Ovid