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Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #15 on: November 20, 2015, 07:53:33 PM »
Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely.
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« Reply #16 on: November 20, 2015, 07:54:02 PM »
Dying is a very dull dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
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« Reply #17 on: November 20, 2015, 07:54:29 PM »
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
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« Reply #18 on: November 20, 2015, 07:54:54 PM »
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
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« Reply #19 on: November 20, 2015, 07:55:21 PM »
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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« Reply #20 on: November 20, 2015, 08:15:41 PM »
A man marries to have a home but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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« Reply #21 on: November 20, 2015, 08:16:06 PM »
Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
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« Reply #22 on: November 20, 2015, 08:16:33 PM »
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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« Reply #23 on: November 20, 2015, 08:17:00 PM »
There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
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« Reply #24 on: November 20, 2015, 08:17:23 PM »
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her . . . but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
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« Reply #25 on: November 20, 2015, 08:17:49 PM »
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we changing continue to love a changed person.
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« Reply #26 on: November 20, 2015, 08:24:21 PM »
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you for it was the illusion they loved.
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« Reply #27 on: November 20, 2015, 08:24:48 PM »
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them for the most part humble tolerant and kind.
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« Reply #28 on: November 20, 2015, 08:25:18 PM »
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them for the most part humble tolerant and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.
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