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“There is only one religion though there are a hundred versions of it.”
“A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.”
“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”
“Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”
“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”
“Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.”
“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
“All progress means war with society.”
“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”
“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.”
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
“Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.”
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
“Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.”
“No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.”
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