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"Air freshener is man's pitiful attempt to have his food smell as good, after digestion, as they did, before ingestion."

"The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm."

"Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious."

"But cocks aren't supposed to lay eggs... Sahil said, trying to untangle himself. "...they're supposed to fertilise them."
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"They're like children, really. Only children are far more logical which makes it difficult sometimes with them. But these people are illogical, they want to be reassured by your telling them what they want to believe. Then they're quite happy again for a bit."

"Mr Rycroft said nothing. It was so difficult not to say the wrong thing to Captain Wyatt that it was usually safer not to reply at all."

"Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride."

"I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy, because if you have people who are brainy, they are bound to be very impatient."

"I think I said that every generation had its weaklings--that that was one of the penalties of greatness--but that their failings were seldom remembered by posterity."

"One can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street."

"There are, of course, the people who revolve around themselves--but I agree with you, she's not one of that kind. She's totally uninterested in herself. And yet she's got a strong character--there must be something. I thought at first it was her art--but it isn't. I've never met anyone so detached from life. That's dangerous.''Dangerous? What do you mean?''Well, you see--it must mean an obsession of some kind, and obsessions are always dangerous."

"...It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane's charming head was distinctly superior to the inside."
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