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Elsa Maxwell

"Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores."

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"Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

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"Give light and people will find the way."

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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

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"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."

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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

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"Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity."
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"I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate."
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"Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished."
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"Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird."
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