The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.Mary McCarthy
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
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People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
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The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress -- these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it they expose it in its process rather than of it they expose it in its underwear.
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