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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
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The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.
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The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
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Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
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Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell.
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Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
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No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
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No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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New York: A third-rate Babylon.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.
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Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another
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Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.
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