“I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.”
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“I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.”
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“To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.”
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“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.”
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“A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.”
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“It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.”
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“It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from 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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“Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.”
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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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“Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to...”
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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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“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
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“For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exa...”
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“Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.”
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“Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.”
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“Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.”
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“Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.”
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“God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
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“Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.”
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“War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.”
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