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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.
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I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.
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Many think that assigning blame settles matters.
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Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.
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Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.
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Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.
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We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.
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Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?
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Learned researches lead to headaches, constipation, and befuddled quarreling.
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Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.
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An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
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Death is just around the corner. If only it would stay there.
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Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
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Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.
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In the city, nudity means something in the wild, it just exists.
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
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Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
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Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.
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Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
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If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.
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