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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

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One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

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I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

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The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

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When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

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It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.

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As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

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My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.

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Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

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Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

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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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Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

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