"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
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"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
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"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation."
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"Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning."
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"Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world."
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"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."
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"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything."
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"I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy."
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"If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward."
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"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations."
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"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
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"The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."
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"If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names."
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"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
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"Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city."
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"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
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"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
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"Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner."
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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
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"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."
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