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Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

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Health food makes me sick.

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The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

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Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

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If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?

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Freedom! A wanton slut on a profligate's breast!

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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

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God wills, Man dreams, the Work is born.

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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.

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To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.

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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

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All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

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Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

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At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.

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A fool and his money are soon parted.

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Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

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Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.

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