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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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"I have no affectation when I speak."
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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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"The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear."
Will
"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."
Time
"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."
Happiness
"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."
Travel
"Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb."
Time
"A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug."
Happiness
"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."
Genius
"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."
Genius
"As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them."
Family
"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
Life
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