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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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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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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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