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People who understand everything get no stories.

Bertolt Brecht

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong

People who understand everything get no stories.

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