"An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life."

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

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“I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter.”
“One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.”
“Barbara said she knew it was in as soon as she shot it. She's told me a lot of lies over the last four years, but that was the biggest one I've ever heard.”
“It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.”
“The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.”

Source : "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger. Chapter: "The Spirit of the Age", p. 18, 1954.
“Let's be clear about one indisputable fact: capitalism vigorously pursued has never produced the atrocities - starvation, tyranny, and genocide - that are produced by statism vigorously pursued. Nothing remotely close.”
“I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].”
“It didnâ€™t rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. The sky shatters and rains shards of glass.”

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