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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

— Bernard DeVoto

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Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Don't have much to do with people who drink sherry at any time except with soup; there's something wrong with them.

The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

The Course of Empire (1952)

In the South, a lady’s opinions could not be more important than a drawing-room charade, an accompaniment to sillabubs and cobbler.

Mark Twain's America (1932)

The martini is the supreme American gift to world culture.

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