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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Bartender Kill Love Truly
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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Happy Like Must Only Person That Truly Were World
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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Alone Down Drag Father Full Kepp Level Mother People Realize Time Until Year
The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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Ballet Big Dancer Farm Go Meant Pig Really Run Say Style Thirty Year
Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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Adopt Are Fashion When Know Who You
He knew them only ‘in Braille’ – the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial – after a life like that?
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Back Bleat Curtain Drag Drawn Life Love Name People Person Room
The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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Capacity More People Love Stretch
The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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English Incompetence Same Sincerity Thing Think
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Vice is its own reward.
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Own Reward Vice
You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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Believe Survive Yourself
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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