Sartor Resartus is simply unreadable, and for me that always sort of spoils a book.
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Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.Will Cuppy
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I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the ideas of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.
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I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.
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As you know statistics show that a certain number of people get married each year and the rest don't. Well, I got into the wrong bunch of statistics. I should be pitied instead of questioned.
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