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A certain Councillor of State, looking at a beautiful landscape, said:
"What a marvelous function of nature!" From the note-book of an old
dog: "People don't eat slops and bones which the cooks throw away.
Fools!"

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He had nothing in his soul except recollections of his schooldays.

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The French say: "Laid comme un chenille"--as ugly as a caterpillar.

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People are bachelors or old maids because they rouse no interest, not
even a physical one.

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The children growing up talked at meals about religion and laughed
at fasts, monks, etc. The old mother at first lost her temper, then,
evidently getting used to it, only smiled, but at last she told
the children that they had convinced her, that she is now of their
opinion. The children felt awkward and could not imagine what their
old mother would do without her religion.

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