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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

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One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 12th, 1880

Died: January 29th, 1956

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