"Trifles make the sum of life."
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"All men are created equal."
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"Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion."
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"I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better."
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"It doesn't look like much work goes on at this university."
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"Are you running away from something?"
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"Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then!"
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"Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers."
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"Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species."
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"It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it."
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"Reader, I married him."
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"The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place."
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"The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed."
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"Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he."
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"April is the cruellest month."
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"The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism."
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"Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education."
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"It makes you all look like Dracula's daughters!"
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"That's more than you know about anything else then."
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"It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!"
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