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    One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.

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If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

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The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?.

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

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I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

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Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

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The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the read more

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

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Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of read more

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

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