4 Quotes by Jacques Barzun about men

  • Author Jacques Barzun
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    The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

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    A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

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    The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

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    After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

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