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Adam (n.) is desirous of the apple only because it was forbidden... had the serpent been forbidden, he would have eaten it.
Adam (n.) is one who, when he said a good thing, knew nobody had said it before.
God (n.) is one who, if he really exists, then he is a malign thug.
God (n.) is contradictory in that he created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man.
God (n.) is one whom (in the case of the God of the Bible) to trust is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
God (n.) inexplicably gets the credit for science's eradication of a disease which God had working for him for many years.
God (n.) is the most popular scapegoat for our sins.
Success (n.) is a journey, not a destination.
Success (n.) is dependent upon making one's vocation one's vacation.
Success (n.) is dependent on nothing but ignorance and confidence.
Success's (n.) secret is to find out where people are going and get there first.
Success (n.) is different from failure in this: those that succeeded tried.
Success (n.) is doing all year long what others would otherwise do on their summer vacation.
Success (n.) always displeases even one's best friends.
Success's (n.) secret is making your vocation your vacation.
Success (n.) is when you eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Success (n.) is a simple recipe — All you need is ignorance and confidence.
A Cat (n.) is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
The Cat (n.) is an animal which, if it could speak, would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
The Cat (n.) is the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild.
A Cat (n.) has only nine lives, and that is one of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie.
A Cat (n.) is a home's proof of title: a home without a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
Health (n.) is a tricky thing. Your should be careful about reading too many health books, because you may die of a misprint.
Health (n.) is that which one can only keep by eating what one doesn't want, drinking what one doesn't like, and doing what one would rather not.
Health (n.) is the meager reward gained by those who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable... it is like paying out one's whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
Health (n.) is preserved in old people by habits which would have decayed us; one can't reach old age by another man's road.
Travel (n.) is liberating: You never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born.
Travel (n.) is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
Travel (n.) liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him.
Travel (n.) is, when done together with someone, the surest way to find out whether you like them or hate them.
The Dog (n.) is a gentleman... one should hope to go to his heaven not man's.