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When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.
As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.
In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.
The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.
Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the formless, queer and incomplete, the unreasonable and absurd, the infinite shapes of the delightful human tadpole, the horizon would not wear so wide a grin.
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.
Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
