Abraham Miller Quotes

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A man or a woman without passions is like a windmill in a calm — motionless, ghastly, useless.

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Like bees that are drowned in the honey which they make, the workmen are crushed by the wealth they create.

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Feline, feminine: A quaint similarity of sound. Brutal the thought that suggests an analogy.

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The present marriage laws are very propitious towards making Cuckoldom the normal state of men.

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A man begins to die when he ceases to expect anything from Tomorrow.

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The man who sins and then repents deserves a well-twisted rope at the gallows.

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When a fool dies there is much shedding of tears in the land whither he is bound.

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There is nothing we abhor so much as to have to be virtuous in private.

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Until thirty we live through curiosity, after that out of sheer spite and bravado.

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The State is composite: part ass, part vulture, but principally milch-cow.

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Wisdom teaches us to live content upon a bone gnawed bare.

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Kindness is a distemper which is soon cured by experience.

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Conscience is extinct among us, but it is said to still linger among the more savage tribes of Africa: proof that there is a pressing need for more missionaries.

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The politician is a biped; but he is probably an aberrant form of hyena.

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Beauty in woman is that potent alchemy which transforms men into asses.

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One who stultifies his own character in desperate attempts to please everybody is called a "Gentleman."

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Heaven and Hell are man's hopes and his fears extended beyond the grave.

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The earth is much over-populated, hence that abominable institution called "Society."

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A desire scorned and neglected is an enemy lying in wait with bared dagger.

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Mediocrity is the marshy border line separating greatness from littleness: a fit habitation for human mosquitoes.

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Civilization helps the disabled and disables those who can help themselves.

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Few are fit to train monkeys, yet not one of us but thinks himself competent to bring up children.

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Protracted optimism must eventually end in hopeless fatuity.

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The Fanaticism which meets with our approval we graciously term Enthusiasm.

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The prevailing Christian precept: Make your neighbor turn the other cheek.

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