Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar but in a city with its blaze of light

In the country, the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers biding its time.

If you don't change your beliefs your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

If you don't change your beliefs your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

A man marries to have a home but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life if it were broadcast would not fill

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

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    It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.

    It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.

    There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

    There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

    I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

    I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

    Every book is a quotation, and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone qu

    Every book is a quotation, and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries, and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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