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You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they'd be married, too.
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The virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation.
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Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.
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Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
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The public...demands certainties...But there are no certainties.
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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No man, I suppose, ever admits to himself candidly that he gets his living in a dishonourable way.
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Democratic man, dreaming eternally of Utopias, is ever a prey to shibboleths.
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My business is not prognosis, but diagnosis. I am not engaged in therapeutics, but in pathology.
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When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
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Nature abhors a moron.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
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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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Remorse -- Regret that one waited so long to do it.
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Self-respect -- The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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Truth -- Something somehow discreditable to someone.
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We are here and it is now: further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
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Historian -- An unsuccessful novelist.
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Christian -- One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Judge -- A law student who marks his own examination-papers.
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Lawyer -- One who protects us against robbers by taking away the temptation.
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Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.
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Misogynist -- A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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A man may be a fool and not know it -- but not if he is married.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Theology -- An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing.
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Creator -- A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
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My engagement to AP is off. Her husband made pedantic objections to it.
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My belief is that every man after fifty-five is always ill more or less.
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