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"The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But possible disaster weighs light in the scale against certain pleasure."
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". . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . ."
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"People have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist."
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"Consider how others may feel about you before, during, and after talking. Are you projecting an attitude that results in others feeling accepted and welcome? Are you encouraging people to speak and engage with you through your approachability?"
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"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."
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"I hate the nature of humans, how much you get closer that much they run away."
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"For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes."
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"Set a high standard on how you treat women. Whether they appreciate it or not, don't lower your own standards of behavior."
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"Dogs are owned for their loyalty, but men are owned only because of their stupidity."
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"Emotional intelligence will give you insight as to why people behave as they do and assist you in areas which you may wish to improve."
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"Being nice is state of "Probability", not a state of "possibility"."
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"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."
Time
"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."
Grief
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
Wisdom
"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."
Lifestyle
"It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying."
People
"... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'..."
Debate
"And so too, in later years, when I began to write a book of my own, and the quality of some sentences seemed so inadequate that I could not make up my mind to go on with the undertaking. I would find the equivalent in Bergotte. But it was only then, when I read them in his pages, that I could enjoy them; when it was I myself who composed them, in my anxiety that they should exactly reproduce what I had perceived in my mind's eye, and in my fear of their not turning out "true to life," how could I find time to ask myself whether what I was writing was pleasing!"
Creativity
"That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people desire from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them, is a fact which is perpetually demonstrated in daily life."
Communication
"Even from the point of view of coquetry, pure and simple," he had told her, "can't you see how much of your attraction you throw away when you stoop to lying?"
Honesty
"... Odette seemed a fascinating and desirable woman, the attraction which her body held for him had aroused a painful longing to secure the absolute mastery of even the tiniest particles of her heart."
Love
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