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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.