“ Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. ”
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“ The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. ”
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“ When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' ”
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“ Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at. ”
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“ The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. ”
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“ When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: Whose? ”
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“ When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: Whose? ”
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“ If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make them think, they’ll hate you. ”
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“ a spider and a fly i heard a spider and a fly arguing wait said the fly do not eat me i serve a great purpose in the world you will have to show me said the spider i scurry around gutters and sewers and garbage cans said the fly and gather up the germs of typhoid influenza and pneumonia on my feet and wings then i carry these germs into households of men and give them diseases all the people who have lived the right sort of life recover from the diseases and the old soaks who have weakened their systems with liquor and iniquity succumb it is my mission to help rid the world of these wicked persons i am a vessel of righteousness scattering seeds of justice and serving the noblest uses it is true said the spider that you are more useful in a plodding material sort of way than i am but i do not serve the utilitarian deities i serve the gods of beauty look at the gossamer webs i weave they float in the sun like filaments of song if you get what i mean i do not work at anything i play all the time i am busy with the stuff of enchantment and the materials of fairyland my works transcend utility i am the artist a creator and demi god it is ridiculous to suppose that i should be denied the food i need in order to continue to create beauty i tell you plainly mister fly it is all damned nonsense for that food to rear up on its hind legs and say it should not be eaten you have convinced me said the fly say no more and shutting all his eyes he prepared himself for dinner and yet he said i could have made out a case for myself too if i had had a better line of talk of course you could said the spider clutching a sirloin from him but the end would have been just the same if neither of us had spoken at all boss i am afraid that what the spider said is true and it gives me to think furiously upon the futility of literature archy ”
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“ From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself ”
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“ Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ”
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“ i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. ”
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“ The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate. ”
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“ When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'. ”
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“ Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. ”
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“ One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream. ”
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“ A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country. ”
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“ I have often noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race. ”
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“ The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. ”
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“ It wont be long now it wont be longman is making deserts of the earthit wont be long nowbefore man will have used it upso that nothing but antsand centipedes and scorpionscan find a living on it. ”
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“ The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. ”
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