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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. – Sydney Smith

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He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. – Sydney Smith

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Carpe Diem
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Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. – Sydney Smith

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Marriage
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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. – Albert Camus

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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. – David Herbert Lawrence, White Peacock, 1911

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The human race is governed by its imagination. – Napoleon

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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. – Christopher Morley, Human Being

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