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“Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.”

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The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

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A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

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The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

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Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

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Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

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I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing.

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Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.

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You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

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With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

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The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

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When people look in the mirror, sometimes they see are their shells in the mirror, nothing else.

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