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Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
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Age
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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Alcohol/Alcoholism
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Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.
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Art
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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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Authors & Writing
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What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
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Books
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A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
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Charisma
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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
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Children
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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
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Deception/Lying
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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
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Discovery
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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
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Dreams
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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
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Education
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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
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Evangelism
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That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.
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Evil
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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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Fashion
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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
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You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate.
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Friends
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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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Generations
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The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
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Goals
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
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God
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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.
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Gossip
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How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
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Happiness
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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Books by and about Logan Pearsall Smith