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Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

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Pure Reason Style

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

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HomeWorkEverywhere

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

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LifeBooks Dead

I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.

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FoodPhilosophy Screw

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

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Found Justice

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

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PoetryCall Purpose

The truthful man is usually a liar.

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Liar Truthful

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

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AloneGoodPeace

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

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Line Living Straight

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.

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Given Whether Wish

Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.

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HopeNatureTruth

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

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FoodLoveHeart

Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.

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Poison Worry Worst

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

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AgeIndustry Second

Lying is the greatest of all sins.

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Greatest Lying Sins
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