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“A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.”
“The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.”
“The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.”
“Love demands infinitely less than friendship.”
“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”
“An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.”
“What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.”
“I drink to make other people interesting.”
“Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.”
“A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.”
“Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.”