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Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.
To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.
Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.
Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.