Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.Cyril Connolly
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
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He could not blow his nose without moralizing on the state of the handkerchief industry
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If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
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The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals
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