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" Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. "

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" Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. "

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" Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave. "

" Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. "

" Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost? "

" It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough. "

" It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. "

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" Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. "

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" The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right. "