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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exqui

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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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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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. – Sydney Smith

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Evolution is individual — devolution is collective. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Everyone is as God made him, and often a good deal worse. – Miguel de Cervantes

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On the Sixth Day, God created man, the sort of result you often get when you go in to work on a Saturday. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs. – Abraham Meyerson

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