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| With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his | | Uncategorized | |
| Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. | | Art | |
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| Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers | | Men and Women | |
| Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another. | | Uncategorized | |
| Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap | | Words | |
| You are a very poor soldier: a chocolate cream soldier! | | Uncategorized | |
| You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty; but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy | | Happiness | |
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| You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world | | Honor | |
| You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes. | | Uncategorized | |
| You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself | | Uncategorized | |
| You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold. | | Uncategorized | |
| You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living. | | Uncategorized | |
| You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" | | Uncategorized | |
| You sometimes have to answer to a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly | | Uncategorized | |
| You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul | | Uncategorized | |
| You'll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty laborers, and not so much to drink either | | Uncategorized | |
| You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. | | Patriotism | |
| Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. | | Youth | |
