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Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
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Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.
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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition: An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
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An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
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Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
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And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool - motley's the only wear.
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