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- I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.
- Denis de Rougemont
- Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller.
- Leo Rosten (1908 - )
- Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.
- Paul Fussell
- Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
- E.M. Cioran
- An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.
- Matthew Green (c. 1737)
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