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A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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  3. Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.
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  5. The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
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  8. He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.

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  • literature
  • emotion
  • epigram
  • humor
  • wit

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