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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
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A confession has to be part of your new life.
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A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
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