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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Back Country Dream Far Found Herself Main Snatch Street
There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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