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If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. The more sin he sees, the more his belief in Original Sin is confirmed. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.

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I was always on my oddy knocky.

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I was cured all right.

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But what I do I do because I like to do.

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Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

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Hitler was a teetotalitarian.

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What's it going to be then, eh?

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All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

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Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

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To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

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