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Marriage is one of those things that works best when people don’t think about it too much.

— John Derbyshire

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Most people are not intellectuals — a fact that intellectuals have terrible trouble coming to terms with.

American society is increasingly a conspiracy of the smart against the dumb.

Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.

The fact is that political stupidity is a special kind of stupidity, not well correlated with intelligence, or with other varieties of stupidity.

Stereotypes are, in fact, merely one aspect of the mind’s ability to make generalizations, without which science and mathematics, not to mention much of everyday life, would be impossible.

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The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

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Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance (1893)

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Samuel Johnson

The best way to worship God is to love your wife.

Victor Hugo Les Misérables (1862)

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