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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

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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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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

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When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 12th, 1880

Died: January 29th, 1956

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