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• If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
• Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
• Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.
• Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
• Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.
• Nothing is more cheerful than talking about our friends' shortcomings.
• Laughing at our friends, we avenge the disappointment they have caused.
• People who expect deference resent mere civility.
• Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.
• Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.
• Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.
• Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?

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