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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

— Francis Bacon

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

— Norman Mailer

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

— Albert Pike

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

— Van Wyck Brooks

Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man.

— Scott Brooks

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

— Anna Seward

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields.

— Will Carling

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.'

— Alex Pettyfer

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

— Nicholas Sparks