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"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life."

"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."

"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."

"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."

"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."

"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me."
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"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

"The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art."

"The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life."

"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."

"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."

"If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative littérateur, or a musical confectioner, or a painter of fans with cupids and cocottes. Handel had power."

"Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties."

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