"There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable."

-- Joseph Addison

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“The key to spontaneous wit is an unburdened mind.”
“Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.”
“For me, it is exciting to see a woman take a chance and wear something out of the ordinary.”

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“You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.”
“What really matters is what you do with what you have.”

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“The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied by distortion of the natural form. For, therein is nature reborn.”
“A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.”
“As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the valuation of information practically useful.”

Source : "Information, The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2003.

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