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Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
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We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
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Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
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If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
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Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
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I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
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