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"I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully."
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"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."

"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."

"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant."

"We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say."

"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

"Acceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness."

"Often a woman that doesn't have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it can mend what other people can't. It's either superiority or a second chance to heal a wound they have, by meddling on your battlefield."

"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."
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"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."

"The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot."

"In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art."

"Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong."

"Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something."
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