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I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.

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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.

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Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.

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For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal

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A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

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The major sin is the sin of being born.

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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it.

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