"As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease."
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"Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop."
"Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow."
"As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality."
"Each increase of tension has produced an increase of arms; each increase of arms has produced an increase of tension."
"The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it."