"Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking."
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"In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness."
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"You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun."
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"There is great force hidden in a sweet command."
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"Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life."
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"Hell is full of good meanings and wishings."
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"Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty."
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"Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt."
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"The present condition of fame is merely fashion."
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"Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs."
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"Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper."
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"Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much."
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"Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60."
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"I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity."
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"Writers speak stench."
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"It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil."
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"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."
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"If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself."
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"The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles."
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"Every people have gods to suit their circumstances."
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