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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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