“Manners are love in a cool climate.”
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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.
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.