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“All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.”
“Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.”
“I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.”
“Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.”
“[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.”
“when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.”
“Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.”