No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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