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"Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying."
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"If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don't be surprised when it dies."

"To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely."

"Marianne had now been brought by degrees, so much into the habit of going out every day, that it was become a matter of indifference to her, whether she went or not: and she prepared quietly and mechanically for every evening's engagement, though without expecting the smallest amusement from any, and very often without knowing, till the last moment, where it was to take her."

"A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones."

"Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing."
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"A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick."

"He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty."

"In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping."

"The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you."

"The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time."

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it."
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