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It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent



Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.



For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.



A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.



There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character



Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.



To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.



The thing which sets off the American from all other men, and gives peculiar color not only to the pattern of his daily life but also adds to the play of his inner ideas, is what, for want of a more exact term, may be called social aspiration



A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one



Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world



The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.



It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.



A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one



Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.



The only really happy folk are married women and single men.








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