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| Love, in present-day society, is just the exchange of two imaginary pictures, and the contact of one epidermis with another. |
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| Most anthologists... of quotations are like those who eat cherries... first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything. |
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| Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day |
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| Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all. |
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| No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it |
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| Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris] |
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| Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last |
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| People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. |
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| Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. |
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| Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. |
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| Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners |
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| Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn. |
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| Someone said of a very great egotist: `He would burn your house down to cook himself a couple of eggs.' |
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| Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. |
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| Swallow a toad in the morning if you want to encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day |
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| The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. |
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| The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. |
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