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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."

"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."

"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."

"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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"Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."

"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."

"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."

"Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead."

"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."
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