"Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace."

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"Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace."

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

George Eliot, British Author

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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

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"Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets."

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."

"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

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"Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace."

"The downtrodden are the great creators of slang."

"Every dogma has its day."

"A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual."

"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."

"Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through."

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."

"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon."

"Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets."