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- To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- No good deed goes unpunished.
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
- I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
- Robertson Davies
- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
- George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
- Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.
- C. V. R. Thompson
- Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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