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When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment.

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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

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In particular, there was a butler in a blue coat and bright buttons, who gave quite a winey flavour to the table beer; he poured it out so superbly.

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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

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For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

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When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.

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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

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Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

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Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.

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We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

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I won`t cry for you, my mascara`s too expensive

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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

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