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Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.
A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.
Never try to leap from a standstill.
Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.
Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
Young men preen. Old men scheme.
A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.