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Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. - George Eliot

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. – George Eliot

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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. – George Eliot

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George Eliot
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It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasnt any Santa Claus, and hes still upset. – James G. Cozzens

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I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice. – Mason Cooley

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