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- Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
- The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
- City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
- Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
- Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
- At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
- If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.
- In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
- The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
- Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
- The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
- Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
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