Anyone can be accurate and even profound, but it is damned hard work to make criticism charming.
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Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.
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I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
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