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"It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer."
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"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."
"It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen."
"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad."
"It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer."
"Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman."
"It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."
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"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."
"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."
"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."
"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."
"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."
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