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Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

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Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

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Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

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