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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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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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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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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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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
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People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
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This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
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In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
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Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.
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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Misogynist - A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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