However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

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I am who I am and that's who I am

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Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

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The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.

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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

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