"More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce."
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"Dive bars are much more my thing. They're no-nonsense."
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"There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage."
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"Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution."
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"It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense"
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"It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness."
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"If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently."
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"Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals."
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"What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense."
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"Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible."
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"Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity."
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"Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!"
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"What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you."
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"Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense."
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"Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."
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"And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise."
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"Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?"
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"Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense."
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"As charms are nonsense, nonsense is a charm."
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"I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism."
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