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- Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told…
- As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which…
- While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be…
- The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either…
- All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the…
- The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so…
- My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
- The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and…
- If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid…
- I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the…
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