"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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"I am the most pious person in the room. Even though I have no pie - I have pizza, and what can be more virtuous than eating all by yourself?"

Will Advise, Bulgarian Author

Irony, Humor, Food, Absurdity

"I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Irony, Values, Wealth, Gold

"Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.""

Robert Jordan, American Author

Irony, Pride, Fall, Perception, Power

"In any case, a little danger is a small price to pay for ridding a place of tourists."

Tahir Shah, British Author

Irony, Danger, Freedom, Risk

"Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Irony, Suffering, Humor, Love, Emotion

"That is correct," Zeus said. "The blood of Olympus was spilled. She is fully conscious.""Oh, come on!" Percy complained. "I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That's not fair!"

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Irony, Humor, Truth, Power, Regret

"I can barely read my hand written notes, typed."

J.R. Rim, American Author

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

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Irony, Tree, Axe, Handle, Fear

"The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Irony, Emotion, Distance, Feeling

"Flowers and jewelry worked for most girls as a romantic gesture, but here I was, misty-eyed at watching him show my mother how to stab the shit out of him."

Jeaniene Frost, American Author

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"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."

Failure

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Art

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

Identity

"Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy."

Social

"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

Law

"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."

Genius

"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught."

Humor

"God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past."

History

"Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to."

Society

"Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star."

Accountability