A man only has the right to look down on another man when it is to help him to stand up.

classic quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Matthew Taylor
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Don Leo XII Loayza: No, I am not rich, but a poor man with money, which is different.

classic line from the novel Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1985), translated by Dan Costinaș
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), translated by Gregory Rabassa
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