A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

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Girls usually have a papier mache face on their wedding day.

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Humility has its origin in an awareness of unworthiness, and sometimes too in a dazzled awareness of saintliness.

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I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

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Insight—the titillating knack for hurting!

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It is the image in the mind that binds us to our lost treasures, but it is the loss that shapes the image.

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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

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