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

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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

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Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty

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

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

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

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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

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

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