"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."

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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity."

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"Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself."

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"Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand."

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"The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him."

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"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."

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"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."

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"Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end."

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"The highest form of vanity is love of fame."

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"The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family."

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"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."

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"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim."

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"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit."

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"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject."

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"The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything."

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"There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves."

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"A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity."

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"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots."

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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."

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"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood."

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"It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands."

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"America is a young country with an old mentality."

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"Habit is stronger than reason."

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"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness."

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"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience."

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