Anthony Hope Quotes

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• I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
• Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
• He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.
• In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them…
• You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
• I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.
• Good families are generally worse than any others.
• Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
• I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).
• There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she ever dwells; then…
• For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as…
• Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
• His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

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