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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace , amity with all nations.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.