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Quote by Nicolas Chamfort
It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can live happily in this world. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. Its a palliative. The remedy is death. – Nicolas Chamfort

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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. – Nicolas Chamfort

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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. – George Bernard Shaw

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Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps. – Lemony Snicket

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Curmudgeonesque

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. – William Makepeace Thackeray

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Curmudgeonesque
[M]an is a machine made expressly for sorrow; he has only five senses with which to receive pleasure, and suffering comes to him through the whole surface of his body…. The man who does not suffer is an ill-made machine, an imperfect creature… – Claude Tillier (1801–1844), My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and

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After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer. – James Tobin

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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. – Henry Fielding

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Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in E.T. My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you cant go anywhere. – Henry Thomas

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Every mans life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. – Ernest Hemingway

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