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“Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.”

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“In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.”

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“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.”

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“No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.”

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“Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.”

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“The cynics are right nine times out of ten.”

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“It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”

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“Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.”

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“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”

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“When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.”

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“To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.”

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“If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.”

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“I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.”

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“Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead.”

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“Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.”

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“Alimony: the ransom the happy pay to the devil.”

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“The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.”

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“The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.”

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“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.”

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“Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell.”

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