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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Big People Idle Less
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Reason Strong Intelligible World
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Bad Dullness Excellence Good
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Secret Death Real Soul
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Beats Conquest Hard Impact
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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Element Soft Great Virtues
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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

First Deadly Invaluable Whole
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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Slight Gentle Luxury Air
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Almost Attempting Display Does
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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

Best Certain Every Marked
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Given Law Little Much
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Acquaintances Advances Alone Constant
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The idea of having a steady job is appealing.
Appealing Having Idea Job
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Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.

Alimony Call Changed Divorce
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Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

Apartment Canada Great Like
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From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors. Action movie stars like Stallone or Schwarzenegger usually attract the more aggressive fans.

Action Action Movie Actor Aggressive
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I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.

Born Cycling Everything Hurt
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Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

Ability Acting Another Character
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I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.

Amazing Around Believe Even
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I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.

Big Doing Filter Form
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I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.
Drink Gave Had Last
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I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

Age Fact Food Had
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Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

Acting Actor Acts Deals
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Any Believe Curiosity Delight
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Imagine Living Living Thing Only
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Anything Careful Little Love
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed

Alone Born Complaining Crying
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Because Buy Drink Hard
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Buried Dead Imagination Knowledge
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Deliberation How Idle Life
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Afford He Life London
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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

Better Body Like More
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Alive Being Dead Isn't
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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

Door Go Good Hell
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
Arse Everyone Except Man
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

Because Black Dislike He
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Anybody He Little Made
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Nothing recedes like progress.

Like Nothing Progress Recedes
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I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

Get Honest Luck No Respect
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Divided Like Teeth Writers
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On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.

Halloween Kids Like Looking
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My wife was afraid of the dark... then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light.

Afraid Dark Light Me
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My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.

Coming Coming Home Door Home
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Evolved Fear Fraud Friend
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My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.

Fed Friend Liked Me
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It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

Dog Drink Glass Kisses
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Apply Between Cannot Difference
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I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

Feed Me Mother Shot
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Because Chiefly Ever Expecting
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Active Effect Exertion Faith
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