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For thence,--a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,-- Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. - Robert Browning, Rabbi-Ben-Ezra (st. 7) Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (VI) These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' th' alehouse. - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Desdemona at II, i) You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair. - William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens (First Senator at III, v) The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. - Bishop Robert South, Sermons Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution. - Edward Teller
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