I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
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Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
—Florence King, 1989Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
—Walter Scott, 1823Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
—William Empson, 1928Do you suppose it possible to know democracy without knowing the people?
—Xenophon, c. 370 BCAs natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857