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"Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit."
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"A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king."

"Barking at people earns their respect about as effectively as staring into the sun improves your vision."

"The concept of dignity of labour took people off the street."

"I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect."

"A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could."

"I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. they are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours, hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating."

"If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that."
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"We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight."

"Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent."

"But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean."

"The dog appeals to cheap and facile emotions; the cat to the deepest founts of imagination and cosmic perception in the human mind. It is no accident that the contemplative Egyptians, together with such later poetic spirits as Poe, Gautier, Baudelaire, and Swinburne, were all sincere worshippers of the supple grimalkin."

"It's hard to have done all one's growing up since 33 - but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all."

"It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests."

"Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity."
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