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- Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- You can't expect a boy to be depraved until he has been to a good school.
- H.H. Munro
- Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- My heart is pure as the driven slush.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.
- Harry Hershfield
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