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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.
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The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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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.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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