Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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We think as we do, mainly because other people think so.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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