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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 chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
- John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
- Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
- Mark B. Cohen
- There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)
- It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877), "Biographical Studies", 1863
- To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
- Quentin Crisp
- You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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