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Stendhal Quotes: If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
         

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.


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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.



If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.



Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?



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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.



A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.



A good book is an event in my life.

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