"A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself."
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"We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born."
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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."
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"We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human."
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"People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools."
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"I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have."
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"The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another."
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"literature is the record of our discontent."
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"The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium."
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"The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then."
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"Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose."
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"Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life"
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"Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society."
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"The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow."
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"My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure."
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"Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful."
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"Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all."
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"Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf."
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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