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"One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs."
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"Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious."
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"Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself."
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"I have no affectation when I speak."
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"One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs."
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"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."
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"Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take."
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"It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money."
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"The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear."
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"Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place."
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"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."
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"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time."
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"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."
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"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
Life

"Remember the poor, it costs nothing."
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