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Futility
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“An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.”
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“There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.”
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“You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.”
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“Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.”
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“How long do I try to get water from a stone? / It's like having a bad boyfriend in a good band.”
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“She can't win if she's not at the table ...”
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“Alas! why were we born to woe and bliss / If life had no more need of us than this?”
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“He saw lying behind him the whole futility of his life; it seemed to him now like a mumbled string of meaningless prayers, a foolish litany which ended in the priest falling asleep.”
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“You can't make soufflé rise twice.”
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“... you must not use wood to put out the fire.”
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“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”