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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

George Orwell

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

Frank McCourt

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

Jean Giraudoux

I don't think there is a woman in the world who would not be a little flattered if one made love to her. It is that which makes women so irresistibly adorable.

Oscar Wilde

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

Heinrich Heine

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

For ever and a day.

William Shakespeare

The highest qualities of character … must be earned.

Lyman Abbott

From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.

Frederick Douglass

There is no secret of life. Life's aim, if it has one, is simply to be always looking for temptations. There are not nearly enough. I sometimes pass a whole day without coming across a single one. It is quite dreadful. It makes one so nervous about the future.

Oscar Wilde

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

John Updike

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Franklin Pierce Adams

Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

Publilius Syrus

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.

Rich Little

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Mark Twain

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

Francis Bacon

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Ambrose Bierce

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Diane Ackerman

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

H.L. Mencken

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