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"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations."

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

"There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem."

"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."

"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
Age

"Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character."
Science

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
Art

"I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong."

"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself."

"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."

"No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office."

"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."
Business

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."

"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live."

"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

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