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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
Half a truth is better than no politics.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.