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In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?