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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. A people that its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Goodness is the only investment that never fails. Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. A witty saying proves nothing. The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection. Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure. Man is the artificer of his own happiness. Health is not valued till sickness comes. Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. Health is worth more than learning. We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama. For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex. If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered. Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism. Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States. I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity. Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something. If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance. Even paranoids have real enemies. My only aversion to vice, is the price. If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it. I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement. Principles have no real force except when one is well fed. Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both. The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run. The world began when I was born and the world is mine to win. Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. |
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