"True friends stab you in the front."
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
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"The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions."
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"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
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"It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little."
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"Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken."
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"Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!"
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"Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness."
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."
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"Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious."
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"Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else."
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"My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality."
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"Always be a little unexpected."
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
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"Hearts Live By Being Wounded"
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"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."
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"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us."
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"Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands."
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"Those whom the gods love grow young."
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"Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement."
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