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People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
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A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
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The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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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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To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
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Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
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What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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