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A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
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Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
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The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
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It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
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I only drink to make other people seem interesting.
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What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
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A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
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