No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it. - E. W. Howe

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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

E. W. Howe

No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it.

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A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.

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Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.

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Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

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Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.

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Adam Duritz

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

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Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.

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When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

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I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

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