There is no national science, just as there is no national
multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

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The dog walked in the street and was ashamed of its crooked legs.

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The difference between man and woman: a woman, as she grows old gives
herself up more and more to female affairs; a man, as he grows old,
withdraws himself more and more from female affairs.

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That sudden and ill-timed love-affair may be compared to this: you
take boys somewhere for a walk; the walk is jolly and interesting--and
suddenly one of them gorges himself with oil paint.

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The character in the play says to every one: "You've got worms." He
cures his daughter of the worms, and she turns yellow.

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A scholar, without talent, a blockhead, worked for twenty-four years
and produced nothing good, gave the world only scholars as untalented
and as narrow-minded as himself. At night he secretly bound