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“The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.”
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“New York: A third-rate Babylon.”
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“Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends”
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“Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.”
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“College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students - there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks.”
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“Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.”
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“Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.”
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“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
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“It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.”
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“Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
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“Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
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“Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.”
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“The worshiper is the father of the gods.”
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“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”
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“Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.”
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“Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.”
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“A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.”
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“Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.”
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“Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.”
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“Adultery is the application of democracy to love.”
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