Disobedience is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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• That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
• After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
• ALGERNON. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! JACK. That wouldn’t be at all a bad thing.
• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.