“Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.”
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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.