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- There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
- The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
- There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
- There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
- Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
- There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think…
- I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
- Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
- Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
- There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
- There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less…
- It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
- There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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