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- It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
- The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
- Jilly Cooper
- If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
- Mark B. Cohen
- It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877), "Biographical Studies", 1863
- It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
- Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)
- There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
- Rita Rudner
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