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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

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The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

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I think it would be a good idea.

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Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

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There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal

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The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.

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The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.

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