"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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"Irony, we want our handwriting to look like typed fonts, and our computer fonts to look like handwritten text."

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"Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit."

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"If every woman had a direwolf, men would be much sweeter."

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

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"A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought,, not realizing that, while golf and fishing are Scotland's most popular outdoor sports, gossip is the most popular indoor sport."

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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

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"Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay."

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

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

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

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"Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable."

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