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" The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality. "

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" By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing. "

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" The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. "

" Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into. "

" The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. "

" An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. "

" Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. "

" Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. "

" I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. "

" If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. "

" Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity. "

" Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. "

" There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. "

" Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. "

" An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. "

" Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. "

" Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. "

" It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld. "

" Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. "

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" Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at. "

" A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't? "

" Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "

" A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country. "

" Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. "

" Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. "