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Someone who conceals his curiosity, is overwhelmed with information.

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You are evil like all existence. ... If power were mine I would crush the universe to bloody gravel and stamp into the ultimate muck!

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Let us leave this room, said Melancthe. It reeks of the brain.

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I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness.

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Dismount and kneel before me, that I may strike off your head with fullest ease. You shall die in this tragic golden light of sunset.

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A surfeit of honey cloys the tongue; a surfeit of wine addles the brain; so a surfeit of ease guts a man of strength.

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Who are our basic enemies? This is a secret, unknown even to these basic enemies.

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I suffer from a spiritual malaise which manifests itself in outbursts of vicious rage.

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You are young; you have hopes. One by one they will go, and nothing will be left but the bare fact of life.

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‘No need,’ said Cugel. ‘My interest was cursory.'

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You will obtain a better view from within, but first I must shorten the chain of the captive erb which roams the premises during the night.

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Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit.

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I live in a constant flux; I am unable to make fixed plans.

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One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.

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One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.

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Only the fact of my broken limbs prevents me from leaping at your throat.

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It is an unthinkable discrepancy that fifty-four men should consume the food intended for fifty-three.

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