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In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Describing
Reveal
Someone
Character

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Once discover comfort, and there is no turning back.
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A sheep who goes looking for a wolf is sure to find one.
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The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.
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Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.
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A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
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Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.
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A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
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If you should ever acknowledge my existence, I plan to snub you.
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I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.
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People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
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Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
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Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.
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Death is just around the corner. If only it would stay there.
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Lovers never want to say I love you at the same moment. Hence all the love stories.
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Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
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Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.
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I trust you because I need you.
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I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.
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Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way.
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