Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
From Cyril Connolly
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
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