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Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

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The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

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I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

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The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

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The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.

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Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

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...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

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They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.

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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

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A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

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When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

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Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

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There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.

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When angry, count to a hundred.

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I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

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