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If you wish to become an optimist and understand life, stop believing
what people say and write, observe and discover for yourself.

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Husband and wife zealously followed X.'s idea and built up their life
according to it as if it were a formula. Only just before death they
asked themselves: "Perhaps that idea is wrong? Perhaps the saying
'mens sana in corpore sano' is untrue?"

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I detest: a playful Jew, a radical Ukrainian, and a drunken German.

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The University brings out all abilities, including stupidity.

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Taking into consideration, dear sir, as a result of this view, dear
sir....

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The most intolerable people are provincial celebrities.