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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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Blessing Live Miss Opportunity Pass Today Tomorrow
If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Failure First May Style Success
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
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Character Consist Develop Move Self Sorely Sufficiency Toward
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Father Mother Protect Threatened World
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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Address Change Contempt Expand Universe Human Inhabited Outcast Side Suburb Time
While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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Favour Frequently Little Messy Overrated Say Unnecessary Vastly
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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Air Come Diagnosed Genius Grace Have Poverty Soho Suffer
I’ve never not been famous.
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Been Famous never
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Cologne Diplomatic Euphemism Truth Unpleasant Wear
To lose is not always failure.
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Always Failure Lose
It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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Agony Been Could Done Have Other Way
I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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Act Meant Really Say Them Word Would
I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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Admit Ask Been Burn Came Candle Country Drama Empty English Girl Out Room School She Taught Teach
Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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Being Human Mariage Married State Such Unnatural
If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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Around Bargain Better Find God Shop Should Think Understand

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