You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

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If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby...

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby...

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if...

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if...

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby...

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby...

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to...

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to...

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what...

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what...

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how...

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how...

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct...

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct...

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her...

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her...

FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Done to a turn on the iron, behold Him who to...

FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Done to a turn on the iron, behold Him who to...

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come...

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come...

You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind...

You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind...

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the...

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the...

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of...

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of...

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing...

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing...

Music is what life sounds like.

Music is what life sounds like.

The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected...

The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected...