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"Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing."
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"I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels."
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"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."
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"I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be."
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"So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool."
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"Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?"
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"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."
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"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."
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"Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?"
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"In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before."
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"Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all."
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"True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise."
Compromise
"People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous."
People
"Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion."
Gallantry
"If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble."
Grief
"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
Prose
"There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket."
Praise
"Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error."
Error
"Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows."
Wealth
"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."
Trees
"Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive."
Man
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