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Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

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Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

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A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

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I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

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When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

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The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

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Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

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My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

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There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.

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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

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Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

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Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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