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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
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A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
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An egotist is a person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice Doggie!" till you can find a rock.
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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
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An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
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