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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. – Marcel Duchamp

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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. – Oscar Wilde

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