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"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
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"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."
"Believing in God is great, getting obsessed with it is the problem."
"The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately."
"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."
"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."
"The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver."
"Love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow."
"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."
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"American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant."
"Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges."
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."
"Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience."
"Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed."
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