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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The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.
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There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness
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The human race is in such a dreadful state that no rational person can talk about it without resorting to seditious and obscene language
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