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Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.