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• In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
• Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
• Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting…
• Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
• We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
• You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.
• It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
• Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.
• The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.
• When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well…
• Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people…
• Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other…

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