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" The secret to humor is surprise. "

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" It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. "

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" Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. "

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" Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. "

" Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. "

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" It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. "

" The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. "

" When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real. "

" Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated. "

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" To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world. "

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" What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy! "

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" A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man. "

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