"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat."

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"There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation."

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"How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!"

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"All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind."

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"Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish."

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"He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave."

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"I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing."

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"The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered."

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"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."

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"Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God."

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"How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!"

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"Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste."

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"When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter."

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"What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?"

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"If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul."

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"If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth."

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"There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."

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"We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast."

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"The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend."

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"Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side."

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"Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it."

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"The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection --even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano --is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star."

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"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."

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"What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?"

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"There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine."

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