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"Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them."

"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."

"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."

"Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves."

"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life."

"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

"Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe."

"Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone."

"Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism."
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