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- The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
- Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
- The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
- Carl Becker
- There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
- Charlotte Whitton, Canada Month, June 1963
- 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
- Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- 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)
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