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"Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely."
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"Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending."
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"To live long it is necessary to live slowly."
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"Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on."
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"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
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"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."
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"Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
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"Love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow."
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"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."
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"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."
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"I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds."
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"I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool."
Values
"The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency."
Expediency
"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."
Simplicity
"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."
Party
"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."
Censure
"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."
Comfort
"There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are."
Process
"Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does."
Gender
"You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences."
Consequence
"The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were:Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.'My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said.My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent."
Perception
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