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Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

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The gods too are fond of a joke

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He was a wise man who invented God.

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Wit is educated insolence.

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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these

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