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Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

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An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.

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Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.

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There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

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The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

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Human kind cannot bear much reality.

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Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

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Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

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