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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.