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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
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All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
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All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
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All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
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America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
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Bu'' is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the ''Buts'' that could be said.
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Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list - the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
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Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.
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History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.
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Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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If it weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
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It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.
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