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The marriage state,...

The marriage state,...

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are...

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All my life,...

All my life,...

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of...

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In the old...

In the old...

In the old days one merely gawked at these unfortunates. Donahue's genius is to get them to...

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It's better to...

It's better to...

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an...

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Although a system...

Although a system...

Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its...

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If one talks...

If one talks...

If one talks to more than four people it is an audience, and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an...

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When a girl...

When a girl...

When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.

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The hardest task...

The hardest task...

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are...

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There's so much...

There's so much...

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one...

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It is seldom...

It is seldom...

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

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A man seldom...

A man seldom...

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

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Example is always...

Example is always...

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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The average man...

The average man...

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he...

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As the arteries...

As the arteries...

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Source:
-- H L Mencken, (Sep...

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We are closer...

We are closer...

We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

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Old age takes...

Old age takes...

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

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All men are...

All men are...

All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one...

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Our expression and...

Our expression and...

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

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Books are funny...

Books are funny...

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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I don't know...

I don't know...

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's...

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