3.1 · 21 votes
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Government and Politics
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.4.6 · 45 votes · 32 reads
Feelings
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.4.7 · 51 votes · 139 reads
Thought and Reason
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.3.5 · 28 votes · 38 reads
Feelings
But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.3.3 · 41 votes · 76 reads
Government and Politics
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.4.5 · 22 votes · 148 reads
Government and Politics
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.3.0 · 14 votes · 140 reads
Science and Technology
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.4.7 · 57 votes · 126 reads
Virtues
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.3.5 · 60 votes · 179 reads
Virtues
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!3.5 · 36 votes · 159 reads
Various
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.3.8 · 58 votes · 177 reads
Government and Politics
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.3.3 · 38 votes · 158 reads
Art and Culture
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.4.3 · 59 votes · 35 reads
Various
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.3.5 · 10 votes · 20 reads
Art and Culture
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?4.4 · 27 votes · 144 reads
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