The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists. - Edward Dahlberg
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
- Edward Dahlberg
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. - Edward Dahlberg
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. - Edward Dahlberg
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks. - Edward Dahlberg
I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple… - Edward Dahlberg
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple…
Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition. - Edward Dahlberg
Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. - Edward Dahlberg
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
It takes a long time to understand nothing. - Edward Dahlberg
It takes a long time to understand nothing.
I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see. - Edward Dahlberg
I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.
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