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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.
[ Alcohol and Alcoholism ]
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
[ Economy and Economics ]
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If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.
[ Language ]
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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
[ Perfection ]
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If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
[ Men and Women ]
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In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
[ Angels ]
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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
[ Plays ]
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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
[ Danger ]
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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
[ Youth ]
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
[ Sincerity ]
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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
[ Generations ]
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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
[ Kings ]
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
[ Money ]
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Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
[ Servants ]
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
[ Liberty ]
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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
[ Death and Dying ]
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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
[ Amusement ]
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
[ Exaggeration ]
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
[ Achievement ]
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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.
[ Men ]
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
[ Marriage ]
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
[ Ability ]
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
[ Experience ]
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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
[ Morality ]
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My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
[ Religion ]
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My reputation grew with every failure.
[ Reputation ]
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
[ Jokes and Jokers ]
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
[ Jealousy ]
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
[ Experts ]
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No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
[ Questions ]
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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
[ Reasonableness ]
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
[ Consequences ]
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Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.
[ Work ]
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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
[ Health ]
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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
[ Age and Aging ]
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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
[ Desire ]
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
[ Patriotism ]
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous
[ Peace ]
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
[ Power ]
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Property is organized robbery.
[ Property ]
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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
[ Nationalities and Nationalism ]
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
[ Memory ]
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
[ Science and Scientists ]
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Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.
[ Science and Scientists ]
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Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
[ Self-denial ]
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
[ Self-sacrifice ]
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She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
[ Conversation ]
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
[ Silence ]
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Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I of dream things that never were, and say, Why not?
[ Vision ]
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Success covers a multitude of blunders.
[ Success ]
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