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• Modern society: The lowest common denominator.
• The highest condition takes rise in the lowest. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 781
• Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.
  -- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)...
• Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.
  -- Tolstoy...
• There is one rule for the industrialist and that i
  Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible....
• Love as it exists in society is merely the mingling of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
• Intellectual 'work' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
  -- John Adams (1735-1826)...
• With her body, woman is more sincere than man; but with her mind she lies.
  And when she lies, she does not believe herself. -- Tolstoy...