Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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The past is a pebble in my shoe.

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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night

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