The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
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Zum Autor"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
"Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car."
"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us."
"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired."
"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
"Fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles."