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There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise… purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.