The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

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Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

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