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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."

"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

"Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have."
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"They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum."


"I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition."


"If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience."


"I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone."


"The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after."
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