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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

— George Jean Nathan

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The World in Falseface (1923)

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The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

I have no patriotism, for patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

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Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

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