“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.”
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
