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By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; b

By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. – Joseph Collins

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The chief reason why marriage is rarely a success is that it is contracted while the partners are insane. – Joseph Collins

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