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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

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Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

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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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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 12th, 1880

Died: January 29th, 1956

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