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"Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book."
Mind
"We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair."
Hair
"Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other."
Man
"Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts."
Thought
"We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself."
Man
"It is good to love the unknown."
Love
"The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth."
Truth
"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking."
Beauty
"Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less."
Time
"Riches are chiefly good because they give us time."
Time
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