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Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.
An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.
The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.
If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.
Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.
If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!
I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.
Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.