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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. - [War] Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself. - [Humanity] I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. - "Mr. Chesterton in hysterics," in "The Clarion" [Feminism] It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one's disaster. - [Virtue] Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. - [Life] Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth. - [Wounds] The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. - [Difference] The knocking on the door did not wake Isabelle because she had started up from sleep early that morning. - The Thinking Reed [Books (First Lines)]
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