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" A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. "
George Jean Nathan
Man
Wife
First
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. "
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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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" It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on. "
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Now
" 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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" The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. "
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" Love demands infinitely less than friendship. "
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" The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism. "
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" Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote. "
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Good
Elected
" Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. "
George Jean Nathan
Many
Love Is
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" An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut. "
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" Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value. "
George Jean Nathan
Criticism
Others
Own
" A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to. "
George Jean Nathan
Listens
She
Woman
" 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. "
George Jean Nathan
Rest
Darkness
Art
" Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. "
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Patriotism
Real Estate
Principles
" Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry. "
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Idiots
Wise Men
Beauty
" 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. "
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Woman
True
" Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. "
George Jean Nathan
Eyes
Important
Men
" No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. "
George Jean Nathan
Fists
Clearly
Anger
" What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency. "
George Jean Nathan
Transparency
Nothing
Man
" Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. "
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Own
Great
Art
" Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man. "
George Jean Nathan
Woman
Always
Dog