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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

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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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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

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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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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 12th, 1880

Died: January 29th, 1956

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