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The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else.
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) "The Quintessence of Ibsenism" (1891)...
I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States.
I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers....
Wherever there is great property there is great inequality.
For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many....
Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) "Afterthoughts" (1931)...
My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
-- Socrates (470?-399 BCE) "Apology...
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
-- Socrates (470?-399 BCE) "Apology...
When woman no longer finds herself acceptable to men, she turns to religion.
-- Madame de Sta�l (1766-1817) quoted in Noyes, "View of Religio...
The Christian churches would not recognize Christianity if they saw it.
-- Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936)...
Vous �tes toute une g�n�ration perdue. [You are all a lost generation.
] -- Gertrude Stein (1874-1846) got it from a garage owner and passed it to Hemingway who made it popular....
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half-remembered glory.
-- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) "America and Americans" (1966)...

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