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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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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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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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"Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing."
Gratitude
"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport."
War
"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
"I love to lose myself in other men's minds."
Love
"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
"Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life."
Life
"Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever."
Humor
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