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- The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of…
- There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.
- If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.
- You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one…
- The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as…
- No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters,…
- Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we…
- The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
- The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
- She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You…
- I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
- I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life,…
- Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
- Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.
- There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side…
- "Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I`ll just show you this one." He showed me three.
- There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain
- I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is…
- The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one…
- A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.
- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse…
- An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.
- A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
- Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value…
- At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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