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Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.
There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.
A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.
If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.
No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.