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• Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to…
• Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has…
• Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
• The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public…
• Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and…
• To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for…
• The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on…
• Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
• I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government…
• The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to…
• The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are…
• Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.

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