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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.: G.K. Chesterton
Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.: Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859)
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.: Phyllis Diller
Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.: Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917
Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?: Howard Zinn
No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)

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