American women are wonderfully clever in concealing their parents as much as English women are good at concealing their past.
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Society
American women always take the best bachelors. Why can't they stay in their own country? They are always telling us it is the Paradise for women... That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so eager to get out of it.
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Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realise what it has done.
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Society, civilized society, at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef. And, after all, it is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in his private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.
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To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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