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- It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
- Jean Kerr
- Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
- The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
- Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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