[New York] is the place where all the aspirations of the Western World meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam

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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

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A good politician…is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar or a virtuous harlot.

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A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. H. L.

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A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.

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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. H. L.

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A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

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A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.

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A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it— this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

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A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. H. L.

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