"Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature."

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"Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature."

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"All art is but imitation of nature."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

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"The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there."

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"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."

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"We ran as if to meet the moon."

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