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"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."
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"So, while we're sitting here on this luxury yacht enjoying our bread and water, why doesn't someone tell me the plan?"
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"If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure."
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"After all, that's all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance."
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"I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who have both, have it all."
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"Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice."
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"Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look."
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"Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience."
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"There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls."
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"Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore."
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"Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly."
Nature

"Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues."
Ambition

"The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice."
Character

"As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone."
Family

"Without natural gifts technical rules are useless."
Knowledge

"It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate."
Lifestyle

"Verse satire indeed is entirely our own."
Writing

"It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort."
Effort

"When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield."
Hope

"Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture."
Work
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