I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word – politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
FRAN LEBOWITZI place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word – politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
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I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won’t feel like watching.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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