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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we do not know.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We are all fools in love.

— Jane Austen

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison.

— Bertrand Russell

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

— George Bernard Shaw

What are men to rocks and mountains?

— Jane Austen

Youth is wasted on the young.

— George Bernard Shaw

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

— Benjamin Franklin

It's always tea-time.

— Lewis Carroll

Love is a serious mental disease.

— Plato

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

— Oscar Wilde

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

— Epictetus

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

— Oscar Wilde

I see nobody on the road, said Alice. I only wish I had such eyes, the King remarked in a fretful tone. To be able to see Nobody!

— Lewis Carroll

We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.

— Lewis Carroll

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

— Lewis Carroll

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

— Albert Einstein

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

— Mark Twain

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

— Winston Churchill

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

— C. S. Lewis

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

— Oscar Wilde

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, what mighty contests rise from trivial things!

— Alexander Pope

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

— Lewis Carroll

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

— Benjamin Franklin

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

— Voltaire

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