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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
[ Cynics and Cynicism ]
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A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.
[ Gentlemen ]
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
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A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
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A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
[ Nuns ]
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
[ Alcohol and Alcoholism ]
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
[ Adultery ]
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
[ Quotations ]
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Alimony -- the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
[ Alimony ]
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Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
[ Churches ]
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
[ Heart ]
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
[ Bachelor ]
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
[ Bachelor ]
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
[ Conscience ]
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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
[ Conscience ]
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
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Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
[ Democracy ]
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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
[ Decency ]
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
[ Faith ]
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
[ Problems ]
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
[ Voting ]
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Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.
[ History and Historians ]
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Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
[ Honor ]
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
[ Husbands ]
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
[ Democracy ]
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
[ Action ]
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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.
[ Marriage ]
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
[ Heroes and Heroism ]
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.
[ Justice ]
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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
[ Belief ]
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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
[ Evolution ]
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
[ Certainty ]
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Legend : a lie that has attained the dignity of age.
[ Legend ]
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
[ Colleges and Universities ]
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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
[ Choice ]
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Life is a dead-end street.
[ Life and Living ]
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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
[ Love ]
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
[ Love ]
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
[ Humankind ]
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
[ Men and Women ]
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
[ Safety ]
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
[ Wisdom ]
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No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.
[ Farming and Farmers ]
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On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
[ Agreement ]
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Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
[ Opera ]
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
[ Puritans ]
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Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.
[ Remorse ]
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
[ Self-respect ]
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
[ Temptation ]
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