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“Everyone has a right to happiness and sooner or later I will have it.”
“You think your temper is the worst in the world, but mine used to be just like it.”
“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”
“The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.”
“The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.”
“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.”
“Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they'd be married, too.”
“Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.”
“It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.”
“Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.”
“There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets.”
“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
“Democrats are always happy. Democracy is a sort of laughing gas.”