"There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see."

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Source : Machado de Assis (1952). “Epitaph of a Small Winner”

Agnes Repplier

#World Quotes #Jokes Quotes

“The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.”
“The love of husband and wife, which is creative of new human life, is a marvellously personal sharing in the creative love of God who brings into being the eternal soul that comes to every human being with the gift of human life.”
“What can happen in 30 years? A senator can become a multi-millionaire in public office.”
“Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?”
“There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.”
“I dont think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.”
“I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.”
“The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.”

Source : Claude Adrien Helvétius (1807). “De l'esprit; or, Essays on the mind. Transl. To Which are now prefixed, a life of the author and prefatory strictures by W. Mudford”, p.24

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