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When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of f

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. – William Shakespeare, King Lear

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It is people who make me seasick—not the sea. But I am afraid that science has yet to find a solution for this ailment. – Albert Einstein, 1930

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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious. – Edgar Saltus

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