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No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

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I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

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There are more fools in the world than there are people.

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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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