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• Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.
• It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
• A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions…
• Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
• No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.
• Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether…
• Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or…
• The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name…
• The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is…
• Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.
• The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and…
• For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

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