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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.

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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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