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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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Achievement Citizen Come Dozen Each Easy Except Half Ignorance Proud Town
When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Know Love More People You
You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Anything Buy Customer One People
Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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Come Country Fascism Flag Hundred Name Percent Wrap

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