"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not."
"The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted."
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Source: Journals 1889-1949, 1929.
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