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- The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
- Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and…
- Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they…
- All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
- There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
- All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
- Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
- There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
- Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.
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