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

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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

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You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

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

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

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

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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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