By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
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I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.Frank Moore Colby
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
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A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
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Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
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