The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace … - Nicolas Chamfort

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Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life

Nicolas Chamfort

The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

Eye, False, Friends, Make, Natrual, Real

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If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

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There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

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All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.

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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.

Become, Bronze, Heart, Life, Living, Men

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His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy There's vomit on his sweater already: mom's spaghetti He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting What he wrote down. The whole crowd goes so loud He opens his mouth but the words won't come out He's choking, how? Everybody's joking now The clock's run out, time's up, over - blaow!

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As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

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No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.

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