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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated.
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Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.
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My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
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In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.
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Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.
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Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
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Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
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Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.
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Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.
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I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.
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A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.
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Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.
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Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.
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I create my social existence by earning and spending.
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The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.
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I trust you because I need you.
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Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.
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Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.
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Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.
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Once discover comfort, and there is no turning back.
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