"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."

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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity."

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"Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself."

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"Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand."

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"The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him."

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"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."

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"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."

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"Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end."

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"The highest form of vanity is love of fame."

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"The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family."

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