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"Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend."
Friendship
"Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift."
Woman
"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."
Admiration
"Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast."
People
"A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion."
Fool
"To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius."
Wisdom
"A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward."
Woman
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."
Experience
"There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering."
Truth
"Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him."
Man
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