Quotes 1081 till 1092 of 1092.
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Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
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Peace: a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
The Devil's Dictionary -
The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
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The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.
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There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet - two clarionets.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
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