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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
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It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
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Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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