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"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."
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"Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity."
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"In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved."
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"When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools."
People
"You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart."
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"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."
Work
"It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic."
Life
"People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately."
People
"Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity."
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"In America nothing dies easier than tradition."
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