"There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the...












It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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"The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
"Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.