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Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.
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The older a man the more grotesque people find his couplings, like the spasms of a dying animal.
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A majority is always the best repartee.
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Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
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Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before, consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
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The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.
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Glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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