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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

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There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.

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Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

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We use 10 percent of our brains. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60 percent.

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Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church.

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Politicians are the same all over. they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

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Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

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I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

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I fixed my eyes on the larget cloud, as if, when it passed out of my sight, I might have the good luck to pass with it.

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The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.

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