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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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- The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
- Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
- Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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- Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
- Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
- Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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