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| One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring |
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| One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing |
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| One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up |
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| Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. |
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| Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. |
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| Painting is the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic |
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| Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay |
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| Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business man |
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| Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. |
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| Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it |
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| Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. |
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| Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince |
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| Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God |
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| Psychology: The theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow, and is certainly a damned fool |
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| Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy |
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| Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth |
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| Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it |
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| Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas |
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| Say what you want about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them |
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