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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

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The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

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Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

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