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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. "
Fool
Labor
Life
" A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to. "
Listens
She
Woman
" A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. "
Man
Woman
True
" A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. "
Man
Wife
First
" An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut. "
Like
Hole
Actor
" An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. "
Out
Optimist
Looking
" Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote. "
Who
Good
Elected
" Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry. "
Idiots
Wise Men
Beauty
" Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people. "
Privilege
World
Common Sense
" Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value. "
Criticism
Others
Own
" 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. "
Rest
Darkness
Art
" Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. "
Own
Great
Art
" I drink to make other people interesting. "
Make
Interesting
Drink
" I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. "
Down
Know
Girl
" It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on. "
Me
Myself
Now
" Love demands infinitely less than friendship. "
Less
Demands
Love
" Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. "
Many
Love Is
Love
" Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man. "
Woman
Always
Dog
" No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. "
Fists
Clearly
Anger
" Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. "
Patriotism
Real Estate
Principles
" Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. "
Eyes
Important
Men
" So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater. "
Pretty
Stage
Professional
" The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism. "
Skepticism
Forest
Path
" The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. "
Mouth
Laugh
Him
" To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. "
Speak
Sex
Morals
" What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency. "
Transparency
Nothing
Man
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