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teach it to dance." | |
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Found in the topic Past.
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| "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid." | |
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Found in the topic Sincerity.
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| "There is no love sincerer than the love of food." | |
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Found in the topic Food.
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| "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their
capacity for experience." | |
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Found in the topic Experience.
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| "The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about
anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my
notions have only wasted my time." | |
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Found in the topic Never.
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| "A fool"s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into
superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education." | |
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Found in the topic Brain.
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| "When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth." | |
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Found in the topic Funerals.
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| "You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold
and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of
the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as
long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold." | |
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Found in the topic Capable.
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| "We must always think about things, and we must think about things as
they are, not as they are said to be." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: Age,
which forgives itself anything, is forgiven nothing." | |
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Found in the topic Youth.
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| "Every man over forty is a scoundrel." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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| "The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot,
his mother drudge for his living as seventy, sooner than work at anything
but his art." | |
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Found in the topic Art.
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| "If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a
conclusion." | |
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Found in the topic Conclusions.
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| "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my
measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with
their old measurements and expected them to fit me." | |
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Found in the topic Clothes.
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| "My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of
eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains
directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches,
but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of
live fish, all wearing white scarf"s in honor of the man who perished
rather than eat his fellow creatures." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "When a man wants to murder a tiger, it"s called sport; when the
tiger wants to murder him it"s called ferocity." | |
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Found in the topic Sports.
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| "With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not
even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise
Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his.... It would positively be
a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him." | |
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Found in the topic Ego.
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| "Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things
that never were and ask why not." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation
with the maximum of opportunity." | |
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Found in the topic Marriage.
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| "Virtue is insufficient temptation." | |
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Found in the topic Temptation.
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