Världen är en komedi för dem som tänker, en tragedi för dem som känner.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.
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'Heap coals of fire on the head of your enemy' Mthis most uncharitable advice is found in a book [the Bible], of which charity is reckoned the...
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When Sir Robert Walpole was dying, he told Ranby his surgeon that he desired his body might be opened. Ranby acting great horror cried, 'Good ...
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If Paris lived now, and preferred beauty to power and riches, it would not be called his Judgment, but his Want of Judgment.
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Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
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The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is sort of a Divine accident.
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
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This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
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Dear Brand: You love laughing; there is a king dead; can you help coming to town?
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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?
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No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.
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Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
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Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
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Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
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