“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”
Source: The History of Love
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“There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.”
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Robert Benchley (1889–1945) American comedian
Vanity Fair (February 1920)
Variant: There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.
Context: There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not. Both classes are extremely unpleasant to meet socially, leaving practically no one in the world whom one cares very much to know.
