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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a…
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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
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The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.
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England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream…
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An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is…
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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that…
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I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are…
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I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat…
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All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and…
— George Jean Nathan
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Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."
— H. L. Mencken
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To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,…
— Denis Diderot
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Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
— Hilaire Belloc
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The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.
— John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
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It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to…
— Wallace Stegner
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