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I learned that...love was the only dirty trick that nature played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
-- William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) "The Summing Up" (1938)...
The Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
-- William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) "The Bread Winne...
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
-- Mary McCarthy (1912- ) from The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 1958...
Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.
But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great....
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
-- Herman Melville (1819-1891) "Moby Dick" (1851)...
Nothing is worse than a woman, even a good one. -- Menander (c.
342-c.291 BCE) "Greek Anthology...
More love a mother than a father shows: He *thinks* this is his so
how only *knows*. [Mother's baby, father's maybe?...
Deus ex machina. (A god from the machine.) -- Menander (c.
342-c.291 BCE) "The Woman Possessed with a Divinity...
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess. -- Menander (c.
342-c.291 BCE) quoted in Philo, De Abrahamo...

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