You can’t go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
FRAN LEBOWITZGreat people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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Ifyou have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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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.
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Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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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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You’re only as good as your last haircut.
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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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