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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

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When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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