"Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return."

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"Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return."

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"Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation."

"He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods."

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."

"Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair."

"I've always liked men better than women."

"And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold."

"Men's vows are women's traitors!"

"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

"When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies."

"Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?"

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"A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug."

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"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."