Arthur Desmond Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“This world is too peaceful, too acquiescent, too tame. It is a circumcised world. Nay! - a castrated world! It must be made fiercer, before it can become grander and better and - more natural.”
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“Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.”
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“Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle.”
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“Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence.”
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“Tremendous indeed is the occult influence of sex-love upon the evolution of organic life. Love and glory, fidelity, emulation, resolution, beauty, strength, and courage are directly inspired by sex-passions.”
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“Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival.”
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“There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.”
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“Most women you know are very much interested in the man who is reputed to be deeply admired by other women.”
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“Good or bad I propose to be something great!”
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“Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.”
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“Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.”
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“Women find little pleasure in the society of women.”
-- Arthur Desmond