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[Letter to William Ward, 11 July 1878]Dear Boy, Why don’t you write to me? I don’t know what has become of you.As for me I am ruined. The law suit is ...more

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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

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Men always want to be a woman`s first love - women like to be a man`s last romance.

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

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Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.

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An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful...more

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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inv...more

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.