It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.G. C. Lichtenberg
If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
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