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"I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect."
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"An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue."
Silence
"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."
Being
"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself."
Mind
"It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition."
History
"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women."
Man
"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there."
Life
"To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own."
Criticism
"What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?"
Character
"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
Beauty
"Ideas are, in truth, force."
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"Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone."
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Personal Development
"I didn't have the vaguest idea of what to do " I couldn't keep staring at the wall forever, I told myself. But even that admonition didn't work. A faculty advisor reviewing a graduation thesis would have had the perfect comment: you write well, you argue clearly, but you don't have anything to say."
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Personal Development
"Never ask about the details of someone's personal life, only the quality. Because if they want you to know, they'll let you know. If they don't want you to know, there is no need to know."
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Personal Development
"What grave liability one incurs when one calls a virtuous woman, a whore! It will ruin his countless lives to come. There is no liability if one calls a whore a virtuous woman!"
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Personal Development
"Barking at people earns their respect about as effectively as staring into the sun improves your vision."
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Personal Development
"I am 15 and you are 51, I know you are the best, to be loved by, everyone."
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Personal Development
"It is wise to use titles for people in positions of power, higher education, seniority, or maturity, unless otherwise instructed. This may sound old-fashioned, but practicing respectful traditions will earn you points and inevitably make you seem more cultured and sophisticated. This is especially true with older generations."
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Personal Development
"The natural and untainted male mind respects and loves the woman and her magnificent scope of capability and creative gifts."
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Personal Development
"Being told you are wrong or insulted, gives you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally."
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Personal Development
"We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him."
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