The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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