"Life is one long process of getting tired."
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"Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name."
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"The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions."
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"Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one."
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"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way."
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"Spare the rod and spoil the child."
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"A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy."
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
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"A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends."
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"Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg."
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"Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies."
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"If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue."
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"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."
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"Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children."
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"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."
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"I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy."
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"You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it."
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"People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced."
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