“One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.”
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.