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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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First the grub, then the morals.

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

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What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the troub...

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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

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The theater-goer in conventional dramatic theater says: Yes, I've felt that way, too. That's the way I am. That's life. That's the way it will...

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For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

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Righteous people have no sense of humor.

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There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.

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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the forme...

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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

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