Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
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Passion is destructive; if it does not destroy, it dies.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Of course it was cause and effect, but in the necessity with which follows the other lay all tragedy of life.
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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
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I have not been afraid of excess: excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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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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He was the kind of man with whom one would have hesitated to pass a lonely evening, but with whom one might cheerfully have looked forward to spending six months.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel. '
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