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Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
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hung Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
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Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
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He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
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-- Damon Runyan By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Norman Cross
