"A man's idee in a card game is war"

-- Finley Peter Dunne

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“I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploitation and conquest.”
“People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.”

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“Combinatorial analysis, in the trivial sense of manipulating binomial and multinomial coefficients, and formally expanding powers of infinite series by applications ad libitum and ad nauseamque of the multinomial theorem, represented the best that academic mathematics could do in the Germany of the late 18th century.”
“People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.”
“I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.”
“Time brings all things to pass.”
“What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.”
“A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.”

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