The man who sees consistency in things is a wit the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any realtion to reality at all.
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There is no skeptic who does not feel that men have doubted before, but no man in love thinks that anyone has been in love before.
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How beautiful it would be for someone who could not read.
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