SaturdayMay 10, 2025
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Everyone, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by check more lightheartedly than he pays little in cash.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in our nature.
'I don't', she added, 'know anything about music, really. But I know what I like'.
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
Strange when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history for in legend as having died of laughter.
She was one of the people who say 'I dont know anything about music really, but I know what I like.'
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a mans footprint.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
It seems to be a law of nature that no man ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
The past is a work of art, full of irrelevancies and loose ends.
'After all,' as a pretty girl once said to me, 'women are a sex by themselves, so to speak.'
Most women are not so young as they are painted.
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
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