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A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
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A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
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I drink to make other people interesting.
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I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.
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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
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Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
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What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

Biography

George Jean Nathan (born February 14, 1882, Fort Wayne, Indiana - died April 8, 1958, New York, New York) was a U.S. drama critic and editor. Famous for the erudition and cynicism of his reviews, Nathan was an early champion of Eugene O'Neill. Together with H.L. Mencken he co-founded magazines Smart Set in 1914 and The American Mercury in 1924. He was also a founder and an editor (1932–35) of the American Spectator, and after 1943 he wrote a syndicated column for the New York Journal-American. His criticism appeared in the following: Mr. George Jean Nathan Presents (1917); The Critic and the Drama (1922); The Testament of a Critic (1931); Since Ibsen (1933); The World of George Jean Nathan, ed. by Charles Angoff (1952); and The Magic Mirror, edited by T. G. Curtiss (1960). Nathan's philosophy of criticism is laid out in Autobiography of an Attitude (1925).

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