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- A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
- Barbara Tober
- He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- Literature is news that stays news.
- Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972), ABC of Reading (1934) chapter 8
- The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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