The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass.
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The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous
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He uses his sources as a drunkard uses lampposts not to light him upon his way, but to dissimulate his instability
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(Pedagogues) More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people
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A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general
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Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business man
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