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To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.
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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
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To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
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To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
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Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an ''act'' and he told the audience, ''This is my act.'' Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
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Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective.
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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
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Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.
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Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
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Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore;
The Muses are ten, the Graces are four;
Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face;
She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.Epigrams Epigram 5; translation by Jonathan Swift, cited fr -
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
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Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.
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