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There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

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The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

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The best people to work for are me, myself and I.

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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

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Life is too short to be in a hurry.

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Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

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I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

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Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

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The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

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In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

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