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A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was t...  
A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?  
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.  
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yoursel...  
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All...   Age
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.  
Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.  
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.  
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually...  
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficu...  
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a m...  
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.  
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.  
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unl...  
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by n...  
I would rather start a family than finish one.  
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.  
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that chil...  
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.  
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or...   Age
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person h...  
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing...  
Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none ...  
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.  
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.  
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.  
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the be...  
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Gr...   Poetry
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on ...   Business
Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.  
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.  
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the...  
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race...  
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no ...  
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Who...  
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand ...  
You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up afte...