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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

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Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.

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We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

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It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

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Impropriety is the soul of wit.

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Writing is the supreme solace.

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

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