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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.
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Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.
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The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
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Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.
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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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