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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
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Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
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An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
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-- Bertrand Russell Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
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With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He would make a lovely corpse.
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pain In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Recreation and Sports Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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