"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

Habit, Effect, Excess, Moderation

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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

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"Laws are never as effective as habits."

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"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."

Ability

"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."

Experience

"There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain."

Truth

"Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part."

Gender

"I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my daughter so that she's free and can stand on her own feet. I m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he's willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life."

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"We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbors. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as for himself."

Isolation

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"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."

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"Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets."

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"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it."

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