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“Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.”

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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

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