Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.

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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

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Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!

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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

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The best prophet of the future is the past.

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Life is too short for chess.

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There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

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To have joy, one must share it.

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