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"If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage."
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"One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal."
"Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love."
"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."
"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."
"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."
"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."
"A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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