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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

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