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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed.
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.