Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
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Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
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Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.
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