The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.

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When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

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A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

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Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

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I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

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How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

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