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New York is a wonderful city.... It is going to be the capital of the world.
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In nature two things do not occur—the wheel and good taste.
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I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.
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[T]he warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.
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There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.
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When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was upon me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job.
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The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.
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The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature—“The sky is falling,” cried Henny- Penny, “and a piece of it fell on my tail.”
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