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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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"I could never hate anyone I knew."
Hate
"Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it."
Humor
"Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever."
Humor
"She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book."
Mind
"We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair."
Hair
"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
"I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is."
Religion
"Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts."
Thought
"The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days."
Now
"My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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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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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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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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