"The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt."

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"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."

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"Don't overestimate the decency of the human race."

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"The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy."

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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

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"Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses."

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"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."

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"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."

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"The lunatic fringe wags the underdog."

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"It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man."

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"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."

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"A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know."

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"Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself."

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"No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer."

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"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."

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"We must be willing to pay a price for freedom."

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"A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation."

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"On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women."

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"A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank."

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"Alimony -- the ransom that the happy pay to the devil."

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"God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters."

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"The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them."

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"Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent."

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"As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft."

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"In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one."

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