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I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.

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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

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Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

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I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

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We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us?

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.

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I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

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Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

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Write drunk; edit sober.

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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

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