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«For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.»
«He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.»
«If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.»
«Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.»
«Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error»
«Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.»
«It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.»
«If you want to be the most popular person in your class, whenever the professor pauses in his lecture, just let out a big snort and say, 'How do you figger that!' real loud. Then lean back and sort of smirk.»
«If they have moving sidewalks in the future, when you get on them, I think you should have to assume sort of a walking shape so as not to frighten the dogs.»
«If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary»

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