Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

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Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

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A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

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Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

Cyril Connolly in Enemies of Promise (1938)
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