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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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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 can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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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.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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