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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

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We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

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Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.

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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

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