I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.

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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the...

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the...

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming...

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming...

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

Everything is politics.

Everything is politics.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy,...

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy,...

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to...

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to...

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple...

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple...

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over...

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over...

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well...

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well...

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.