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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
Topic: Adultery
Source: None
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For the love of God, folks, don't do this at home.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
Topic: All About Love
Source: None
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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
Topic: Books and Reading
Source: None
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Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
Topic: Common Sense
Source: None
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The end of culture is right living.
Topic: Culture
Source: None
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
Topic: Death
Source: None
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The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.
Topic: Dress
Source: None
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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
Topic: Evil
Source: None
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Topic: Excess
Source: None
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The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
Topic: Habit
Source: None
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Topic: Humor
Source: None
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Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
Topic: Men and Women
Source: None
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Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
Topic: Men and Women
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. - The Summing Up.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.
Topic: Money
Source: None
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Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
Topic: Perfection
Source: None
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
Topic: Perspective
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Topic: Perspective
Source: None
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Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, deprecating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Topic: Quotes
Source: None
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
Topic: Sentiment
Source: None
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Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.
Topic: Society
Source: None
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
Topic: Society
Source: None
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
Topic: Suffering
Source: None
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Tolerance is another word for indifference.
Topic: Tolerance
Source: None
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
Topic: Tradition
Source: None
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