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The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
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Friendship
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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History
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
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Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
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