Abraham Miller Quotes

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Our Desires snort and press forward like giddy stallions, but our Means creep sulkily along like snails.

Abraham Miller
Suicide — the only offence against the Laws for which men cannot devise a punishment.

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We complain of scandal for fear that it may pass unnoticed.

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Pregnant Tomorrow, impregnable Tomorrow! holds imprisoned in her belly the hopes and fears of a pale-faced humanity.

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We talk much of reform, meaning thereby a change of mud in our mud-bath.

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Nature talks in symbols; he who lacks imagination cannot understand her.

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Woman is the only creature in nature that hunts down its hunters and devours the prey alive.

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Most men would gladly give their souls to the Devil, were he willing to accept them.

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A woman that speaks the truth finds no favor in my eyes, for she disturbs the pretty theories I cherish about her sex.

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Habit is a great swamp wherein men are turned to fossils.

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Past pleasures are of as little comfort to a man as the money in his neighbor's pocket.

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Children are a comfort to men because the youngsters cannot contradict them.

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Justice like the sunflower hangs its head on the sunny side.

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Most women bestow their favors upon men, not from Passion, but from Compassion.

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I must claim Fortune is a perverse hag until she kisses me upon the lips.

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Men keep on the path of righteousness only because the road to the Devil is not yet paved.

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