"Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."

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"Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."

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Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

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"A tree fears an axe even though its handle is made from it."

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"As the ironist does not have the new within his power, it might be asked how he destroys the old, and to this it must be answered: he destroys the given actuality by the given actuality itself."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

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"Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"The laugh left a bitter taste in our mouths, but we laughed out all the same."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

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"Happiness is a big joke, let us laugh at it loud."

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"Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows."

Success

"Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due."

Compromise

"You scoundrel, you have wronged me," hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever!"

Justice

"Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking."

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"NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi."

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"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."

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"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats."

Democracy

"Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity."

Ability

"Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain."

Opinion

"Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table."

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