The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of the truth that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first.
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The real man lies in the depths of the subconscious.
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No form of liberty is worth a darn sic which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.
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