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"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."
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"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."

"Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back."

"Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know."

"Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is."
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"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."

"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."

"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone."

"What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth."
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