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Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #15 on: September 13, 2015, 10:53:30 AM »
Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.
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« Reply #16 on: September 13, 2015, 10:54:11 AM »
If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.
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« Reply #17 on: September 13, 2015, 10:55:03 AM »
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
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« Reply #18 on: September 13, 2015, 10:55:34 AM »
It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.
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« Reply #19 on: September 13, 2015, 10:56:07 AM »
Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.
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« Reply #20 on: September 13, 2015, 10:58:01 AM »
I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.
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« Reply #21 on: September 13, 2015, 10:58:51 AM »
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
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« Reply #22 on: September 13, 2015, 10:59:31 AM »
We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire.
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« Reply #23 on: September 13, 2015, 11:00:45 AM »
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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« Reply #24 on: September 13, 2015, 11:01:34 AM »
All animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
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« Reply #25 on: September 13, 2015, 11:02:10 AM »
To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
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« Reply #26 on: September 13, 2015, 11:02:54 AM »
The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them.
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« Reply #27 on: September 13, 2015, 11:03:44 AM »
To live is like to love - all reason is against it and all healthy instinct for it.
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« Reply #28 on: September 13, 2015, 11:06:12 AM »
Man unlike the animal has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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« Reply #29 on: September 13, 2015, 11:08:16 AM »
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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