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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

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Everyone needs help from everyone.

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

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People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

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What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

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Right is its own defense.

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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

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I did not know that thou wert dead before; I did not feel the grief I did sustain;...

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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

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Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

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My love for Heathchiff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

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