Wit is a sword it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.
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It is at unimportant moments that a man is a gentleman. At important moments he ought to be something better.
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With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any realtion to reality at all.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
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