"People are either charming or tedious."
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"A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle."
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"Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude."
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"Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality."
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"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins."
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"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
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"The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid"
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"One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour."
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"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."
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"A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten."
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"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror."
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"No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists."
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"Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical."
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"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
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"He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself."
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"Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence."
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"A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it."
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"Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others."
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"Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither"
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"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
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